Quotes of: Mother Keyword

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

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

Christina Aguilera

My mother thinks I'm a national treasure. She's the only one who thinks my Golden Kela award is the greatest gift ever.

Cyrus Broacha

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

Gary L. Francione

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

George III

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

Gene Kelly

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.

Giada De Laurentiis

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

George J. Mitchell

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

George R.R. Martin