Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

James Cagney

'Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?'

James Cromwell

I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?

Jeremy Clarkson

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

Jim Carrey

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

Joan Collins

One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate.

Darmie Orem

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Debi Thomas

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

Donatella Versace

I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.

Dean O'Gorman

I like to make Arroz con Gandules, rice with pigeon peas. My husband loves it. It's a Puerto Rican dish my mother taught me.

Essence Atkins

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

Ella R. Bloor

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Eric Allin Cornell

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

Elizabeth Edwards

Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter)

Eileen Granfors

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

Edward P. Jones

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

Erica Jong

If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

Blake Lively

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.

Bruno Mars

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

Barbra Streisand

I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

B. F. Skinner

My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie