Quotes tagged ‘mothers’

“For better or for worse, my mother is a star that I can’t look away from. She makes the normal beige world I move through sparkle with mischief, hijinx, magic. That doesn’t mean I always like it.”

— Sarah Barnes, manrepeller.com

“The insistence, on both cultural and individual levels, that I should want to become a mother frustrates me. I’m not sure how many more times I can smile and shrug in response to the wails of 'You don’t want kids? But you’d be such a good mother!'”

— Kerry Graham, huffpost.com

“Women have a certain strength when it comes to stuff like that. We have to stay calm, even if we don't want to, for the sake of our children.”

— Lee Daniels, Cookie Lyon, Taraji P Henson, imdb.com

“I’m his mom, I don’t have to tell him anything”

— Jared Bush, Gramma Tala (voice), Rachel House, imdb.com

“Part of the problem I’ve had with women has been in having to compare them to my incredible mother, Mary Trump.”

— Donald Trump, amazon.com

“I still remember my mother, who is Scottish by birth, sitting in front of the television set to watch Queen Elizabeth’s coronation and not budging for an entire day. She was just enthralled by the pomp and circumstance, the whole idea of royalty and glamour. I also remember my father that day, pacin…”

— Donald Trump, amazon.com

“Daryl Dixon: You know, my mom, she liked her wine. She liked to smoke in bed. Virginia Slims. I was playing out with the kids in the neighborhood. I could do that with Merle gone. They had bikes, I didn't. We heard sirens getting louder. They jumped on their bikes, ran after it, you know, hoping to…”

— Scott M. Gimple, Daryl Dixon, Norman Reedus, imdb.com

“I will take every penny he has in the bank and every dollar of political capital that he has in this town. I will court feminist groups and mothers groups and religious groups. I will bury him. And I will dance on his grave. And then? I will run for office.”

— Mark Wilding, Shonda Rhimes, Mellie Grant, Bellamy Young, imdb.com

“I don’t need anyone and nobody needs me. That was the unspoken lesson I learned from my mother growing up.”

— Franki Elliot, vice.com

“Do you know what I was doing tonight, Mom? I was having fun, you know, trying to forget about all the crap that I have to deal with every day. Just enjoying a night with my friends. And then, there you are, wasted at the bar - where I work, by the way, to pay the bills that you don't pay. And then y…”

— Sean Reycraft, Gabrielle G. Stanton, Matt Donovan, Zach Roerig, imdb.com

“My mother, who died recently, never once told me she loved me never once.”

— Coleman Herbert, imdb.com

“Mothers say things. My mother goes babbling on and on like a crazy person.”

— Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“Listen carefully. My mother has never laughed. Ever. Not a giggle, not a chuckle, not a tee-hee…never went 'Ha!'”

— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“The toughest fight I had out of the ring was when my mother found out that I was fighting.”

— Sugar Ray Robinson, youtube.com

“My mother did the best she could. Sorry.”

— Garry Shandling, esquire.com

“All I ever wanted was a mother who paid attention to me. She didn't want girls. She thought we were trouble. She didn't help with homework or teach me to sew or cook. She didn't go to the school plays I was in or go to my high school graduation. When I started menstruating at 13, I thought I was dyi…”

— Bettie Page, latimesblogs.latimes.com

“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”

— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com

“Maybe a survivor is nothing but the last one to come home, the final monarch that lands on a branch already weighted with ghosts.”

— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com

“It only takes a single night of frost to kill off an entire generation. To live, then, is a matter of time, of timing.”

— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com

“God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.”

— John Calvin, amazon.com