Quotes About Perception

Nothing is ever going to describe in words what your mother looked like at twenty when the moonlight just fell on her face in such a way. Only a picture can show you that.

I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.

When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.

Tribe cats are named after the first thing their mother sees, but I thing this would lead to a lot of kits being named 'wall of cave', 'side of cave' and 'floor of cave

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

I hope people have pulled something about me and said "Hey Mr. T loves his mother, hey Mr. T ain't no dummy, hey Mr. T never grabbed his crotch," when you're talking about Hip-Hop culture.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.

Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.