Quotes About Mother

My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure - it was a very unintellectual household - but my mother did read to us when we were little, and that's how I started to read.

I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.

My overwhelming memory of my childhood is the constant busyness in the house. I am seventh out of eight kids - five boys and three girls - plus my mom, Ruth.

One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.

I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid.

I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.

I have to thank my mother for this. When I was a little boy she used to teach me poems. I would go in church and tell the poems in church for the Easter program, and again for Mother's Day and any occasion she felt would fit. I was very energetic with delivery at that time as a boy, so it stuck with me.

'Mother India' is a classic that I love.

My father didn't do a lot of direct education. My mother was the direct educator. She would put on these movies on American Movie Classics when we got cable, after my parents got divorced, which took like four or five years.

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.

My father was a very clever man. My mother was not clever. An extraordinary woman, but simple.

My sister was much closer to Mom. Mom accompanied my sister to all her shootings. I made my way on my own.

For as long back as I can remember, she was pretty much the only person I felt like I knew. Nobody was closer to their mom than me.

Mom is really my closest friend and has been there at every stage. She is the adventurous kinds and made me travel by train alone when I was just five.

The closest thing I have to a manager is probably my mum.

I didn't know my mother was an actress until I was eight and she went back to work. At an even younger age than that, I'd wanted to be an actress, so when I saw her, I clearly remember thinking, 'This is a strange coincidence.'

I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!

Playing Ann Landers is like channeling my mother. That combination of love and the enjoyment of life is my mother. And you find that combination in Ann Landers' letters.

My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.

When I was little, my mom was an actress, and she still is now, and she'd go on commercial auditions, and if they needed a mom and a son, she'd take me along, and that's how I got started.

The Compton I knew was from my mother, and it was beautiful. It was this close-knit community, and people cared about one another, and it was safe.

I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.