Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

James Fenton

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

Jessica Hagedorn

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

John C. Hawkes

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

Jonathan Krohn

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

Clare Boothe Luce

My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.

Bonnie Tyler

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

Diane Cilento

My mother loves it when I talk about her. Half the time, I think she says things that she knows will go straight into the act.

Judy Gold

A lot of the actors I knew threw in the towel when they became mothers. I couldn't do that financially, and I didn't want to - but I was knackered all the time.

Lesley Manville

I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

Nate Berkus

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

Natasha Trethewey

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

Roberto Benigni

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

Rachel Hunter

My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.

Steve Coogan

One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

Sam Taylor-Wood

Demon: Your mother sucks cocks in Hell, Karras, you faithless slime.

The Exorcist

[Stuck in traffic] Samir: Mother... shitter... Son of an... ass. I just... [punches steering wheel]

Office Space

The Unmarried Mother: Haven't you ever done something stupid for love?

Predestination

Jake La Motta: Who's an animal? Your mother's an animal, ya son of a bitch.

Raging Bull

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

Peter Fonda

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.

Vidal Sassoon