My mother once said to me, ‘You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others’. It has guided me throughout my life. – Stephane Hessel
The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters. – Theodor Mommsen
My mother gave me a push. If I hadn’t had her, maybe I wouldn’t have had the push. If I hadn’t gone to military school, maybe I wouldn’t have decided to get with the program. Maybe I’d be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more. – Sam Donaldson
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin. – Tracy Chapman
My father used to sing to me in my mother’s womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats. – Yancy Butler
I think of myself as a fairly logical, scientific and somewhat reserved person. Maura Isles, the Boston medical examiner who appears in five of my books, is me. Almost everything I use in describing her, from her taste in wine to her biographical data, is taken from my own family. Except I don’t have a serial killer as a mother! – Tess Gerritsen
In 1969, I wrote a musical called ‘Mother Earth.’ It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California where I was a member. It was a smash hit in this small theater. – Toni Tennille
Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together. – Winona LaDuke
We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline. – Tippi Hedren
I’m not very social when I’m off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It’s very reclusive. – Tori Amos
I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother’s or your grandmother’s dresses and high heels. – Suzanne Farrell
As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education. – Sue Kelly
I don’t have to have a child come from my womb to have a connection. Children that are already born are beautiful to me. I can definitely be a mother to them. – Tyra Banks
There was never any point in my life when I wasn’t called Mr. Donen. I’m told my first words were, ‘Call me Mr. Donen.’ But I suspect that’s apocryphal. My mother, Mrs. Donen, tended to exaggerate. – Stanley Donen
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. – Steve Jobs
You never know what’s going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never. – Tony Dungy
I like cooking but I don’t know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad. – Soundarya
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers. – Yaya DaCosta
I once worked with Emma Thompson’s mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with. – Thomas Sangster
My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son. – Steve Harvey
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. – Tanith Lee
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing. – Vidal Sassoon
You know how everyone – there’s this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn’t mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn’t mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her. – Sarah Koenig
Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: ‘See? Look how bad capitalism is.’ – Said Sayrafiezadeh
My dad worked nights mostly and while we were growing up, and my mother also worked, so there were times where, when it was just the two of us at home, and, you know, they gave us a pretty long leash, actually. – Scott Kelly
That’s the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn’t care what economic bracket you’re in. – Whoopi Goldberg