Huma Rojo: But can you act? Manuela: I can lie very well, and I'm used to improvising.
Butch Cassidy: [singing] Don't ever hit your mother with a shovel. It will leave a dull impression on her mind.
Mitsuko Souma's mother: [very drunkenly] Be strong, Mitsuko. If ya ain't strong, you'll end up just like me.
I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.
When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.
I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.
I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.
I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Holy Mother we do believe, That without sin Thou didst conceive; May we now in Thee believing, Also sin without conceiving.
My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother.
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.
I remember seeing 'Snow White' and saying to my mother, 'Will there ever be a Chocolate Brown?' She said 'Probably. Why not?' I just never thought the first black princess would be me.
I have been aware since my youth that I am a Hebrew through my mother, and that is something that has played a subtle but important role in my development.
I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.
Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.
We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
