I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn’t writing as much and I didn’t miss it. – Helen Slater
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners. – Hunter S. Thompson
I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness. – Gabrielle Anwar
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. – Georges Rouault
My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven’s mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person. – Harry Connick, Jr.
The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby. – Hugh Laurie
My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late ’50s and early ’60s. As a result, he and my mother – both native southerners – were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust. – Greg Iles
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass’; ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.’ – Harmon Killebrew
I started drawing a mouse because it was my father’s nickname for my mother. And mice are very expressive. – Helen Craig
My playground was the theatre. I’d sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that’s pretty seductive. – Gwyneth Paltrow
Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats – which they were. – Hallie Ephron
My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education. – Gordon Bell
It’s very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it’s also good for her. But it’s definitely good for me. – Helen Hunt
Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. – Hosea Ballou
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave. – Harriet Ann Jacobs
I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies. – Grant Show
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father. – Hugh Leonard
When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt. – Hope Davis
You can’t be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, ‘No ice cream,’ buys the ice cream, and says, ‘Don’t tell your mother.’ You teach the child to lie – and to disrespect the other parent. – Howie Mandel
How do you tell your mother that you feel you’re getting… old? If I’m… old, then what is she? – Gail Parent
I was born in New York City on a cold January night when the water pipes in our apartment froze and burst. Fortunately, my mother was in the hospital rather than at home at the time. – Gertrude B. Elion
The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first ‘adult novel,’ Lucy Maud Montgomery’s ‘The Blue Castle.’ – Hallie Ephron
My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. – Giovanni Ribisi
I had to tell people I was not born with a scarf because I came out Iran. People think you came out of your mother with a scarf; they can’t imagine that the scarf is not stuck to your head. – Golshifteh Farahani