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This bringing up humans, I hate it…Acting is a walk in the park compared to it.

– Amanda Abbington

Sherlock actress says being a mother is tough.

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

– J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye. Chapter 8. Holden on classmate’s mother.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

– Honore de Balzac

My mother had Alzheimer’s, and it’s a desperately, desperately cruel thing to witness.

– Gemma Jones

My mother could never understand why I didn’t write a thriller, which I’ve finally done.

– Harry Mathews

As tough as it was for us with my father gone, my mother and sister were always pushing me. They even let me go to Brazil by myself when I was 13 to train with Sao Paulo for four months.

– Henrikh Mkhitaryan

I didn’t even realize this at first, but there’s almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn’t have a dead mother or a lost parent.

– Gregory Maguire

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

– Greg Mortenson

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early ’70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.

– Harry Connick, Jr.

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

– Georg Solti

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

– Hill Harper

My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.

– Georgie Henley

My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.

– Hamdi Ulukaya

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the ‘Pata Pata’ album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

– Henry Rollins

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

– Harry Frankfurt

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

– Hedy Lamarr

My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I had considered my job to be a wife and mother, then I would have been pretty good at it. But I didn’t consider it a job. I thought it was like brushing your teeth – it’s not fun, it’s just something you do to keep your teeth from falling out.

– Grace Slick

I’m a much better mother at 46… than if I were like, 21 or 25.

– Halle Berry

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

– Hattie McDaniel

My dad’s Russian. My mother’s English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

– Helen Mirren

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

– Gunter Grass

My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.

– Greg Iles

My mother taught me something at a young age – she said ‘you are the company you keep’. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources – that’s pretty shallow.

– Howard Schultz

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

– Graham Kennedy

I’d say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that’s a conventional and perhaps mundane answer, but my family was blown apart at the start of World War II.

– Herb Kelleher

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

– Greg Norman

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

– Hilda Solis

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

– Howard Schultz

My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.

– Heber J. Grant

I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.

– Hayden Christensen

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