Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

Elinor Dashwood: [as her mother and sisters rant about Willoughby's many qualities] Is he human?

Sense and Sensibility

Bruno Anthony: Don't worry, I'm not going to shoot you, Mr. Haines. It might disturb Mother.

Strangers on a Train

[Tristan is dazed just after returning to human form] Tristan: Victoria! Yvaine: I think I preferred "Mother".

Stardust

Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: We called him Mother Superior on account of the length of his habit.

Trainspotting

I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'

Elaine Stritch

I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

Johnny Isakson

I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.

Missy Elliott

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

Peter B. Lewis

We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute schoolteacher, off and on. So, that all adds up to no money.

Wood Harris

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

Henry Cantwell Wallace

Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.

Simon Sinek

I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

Ira Glass

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

Penn Jillette

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

Michael McMillian

I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.

John Cleese

Even though I'm not with their mother, it's important for my kids to see adults in a committed and happy relationship. They need to see a strong relationship. You don't have to settle.

Michael Strahan

My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.

David LaChapelle

I am a complete mother's boy. I try to do everything with honour, respect and grace because the last thing I would want to do is hurt her.

Julian Lennon

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

Mary Wesley

I thought, 'It doesn't matter what that woman is wearing,' but then I realised actually it's our job as designers to make women smile; to bring them the chocolate without the calories.

Alber Elbaz

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'

bell hooks