My parents separated soon after I was born, so I left Helsinki when I was a year old. My mother took me to Paris and then other places throughout Western Europe. – George Gaynes
When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there’s no way you could be a good winner. – Halle Berry
All I’m saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: ‘Antigone,’ ‘Mother Courage,’ ‘All My Sons.’ But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way. – Harold Pinter
Thank the Lord for a mother who was a general as well as a Latter-day Saint; who realized that it was a remarkable and splendid thing to encourage a boy to do something besides perhaps milking cows if he was on a farm, if he had ambitions along athletic lines. – Heber J. Grant
My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn’t end up in her position. – Gabriel Luna
My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies. – Hugo Chavez
It seems to me like Mother Nature’s mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I’ve gotta say, I don’t blame her. Not one bit. – Gloria Reuben
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father’s support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings. – Harold Feinstein
I went to work in a woman’s home in Los Angeles as a mother’s helper. I worked there about two years. Went to school with all rich kids. I was the only poor kid in the school, and I was already insecure. But my voice saved me because I sang in school, and I was real popular because of my voice. – Georgia Holt
I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn’t too sure about her. – G. Gordon Liddy
My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance. – Henry Cavill
When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor. – Hawa Abdi
My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was. – Huey Newton
As a child, I liked to play outside, to stroll through the fields, and I was an active member of the local children’s gang, frequently being chased by field guards and building supervisors. Nevertheless, my performance at school was very good, and mainly due to the influence of my mother, I was allowed to attend high school. – Hartmut Michel
My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid – just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be. – Joan Collins
I’m not the kind of person who needs to be a mother no matter what. Life brings you people. Maybe I’ll nurture someone who’s not my child, like a friend, or an actor I’m working with who needs some love. – Heather Graham
All of them – my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother – were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity. – James Cromwell
Oh, my goodness, when you’re a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and – or Down’s Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there’s a bit of a shock you’re going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve. – Joni Eareckson Tada
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. – James Gandolfini
We’re all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters’ mothers are all good friends with my mother. We’re a big family, 25 people. – Joel Kinnaman
My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her. – James Weldon Johnson
I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it’s doable. – Imelda Marcos
We didn’t have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on shows. But it was just a fun thing to do; I never thought about it as a profession. That started as a fluke; my mother had a friend who was an artist with a theater company, and I started going there after school because my mom knew I’d be safe. – Julia Stiles