“Mother was too dumb to know anything good to teach me. There was little love lost. I first liked her and respected her. My feelings gradually turned from that to distrust, dislike, disgust and from there it was very simple for my feelings to turn to into positive hatred towards her.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“Dear Mother, Well Ma how are you and the family. Am wishing all of you at home a Merry Christmas also give Ralphie and Delores and Mafalda a real nice big Christmas kiss for me. Am in hope of seeing you real soon and will give you your’s. Don’t worry try and be merry and may God Bless all of you. Lo…”— Al Capone, documentcloud.org
“My mother and father used to take me to church in Mexico and Texas, were I used to live. The huge figures of saints and crucifixions. Religion played a big role in my life.”— Richard Ramirez, evilminds.tumblr.com
“The father and mother themselves talk before the children in the most disparaging way about the teacher and the school and they are much more inclined to insult the teachers than to put their offspring across the knee and knock sound reason into him. What the little fellow hears at home does not ten…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“‘Then listen to me,' he said and cleared his throat. 'It's true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother's hut. A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refug…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“He may act like he wants a secretary, but most of the time they're looking for something between a mother and a waitress.”— Matthew Weiner, Joan Harris, Christina Hendricks, imdb.com
“I dream that I am standing between them, stretched so thin I am nearly invisible. They both need me on levels that feel inhumane: my mother, to care for her in the ways my dad couldn’t, the ways her own parents never did, and my son, to be for him what I never had and fear I will never be able to gi…”— Ashley Abramson, longreads.com
“From both my parents, I learned to persevere. But my mother’s extraordinary resilience made her the stronger of the two. I acquired some of her resilience and her felicity, and that inheritance made an enormous difference in my life.”— John McCain, amazon.com
“Any woman who forces girls to kill to show their love is not a mother.”— Michael R. Perry, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Veil, Madeleine Mantock, imdb.com
“My mother is just insane. She makes people feel weird. It's like her hobby.”— Louis C.K., Sam Fox, Pamela Adlon, imdb.com
“My mother is just insane. She makes people feel weird. It's like her hobby.”— Louis C.K., Sam Fox, Pamela Adlon, imdb.com
“There is never going to be a new Pelé because my father and my mother closed the machine.”— Pele, the-talks.com
“Blanche: He was looking for a mother, not a lover. It was humiliating. Rose: I think it's sweet. Blanche: You would, Betty Crocker.”— James Berg, Stan Zimmerman, Blanche Devereaux, Rue Mcclanahan, imdb.com
“My son asked me what it's like to be married so I told him to leave me alone. When he did, I asked why he was ignoring me.”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“Do not talk to your mother and father when you’re crying. Because what happens is, your mom has the ability to make you weep even more, and your dad makes you feel like a fucking idiot.”— Dane Cook, youtube.com
“My mom is probably my biggest hero. My grandmother. My grandfather, who passed. I had a roommate who passed who was one of my heroes. If I can choose another word, I call them my angels—people who really loved you for you and looked out for you and, when you didn’t realize it, were praying for you.”— Ray Lewis, sportingnews.com