Lorna Luft Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Eyelashes, Aquariums

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

• People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Humor, People

• The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, People, Freak

• My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Years, Lasts

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

• When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Independent, Agents

• My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Legends, Garlands

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

• My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Should Have, Class

• The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, One Thing

• My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Suicide, Anxiety

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

• Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Shadow, Tabloids

• My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Electric, Audience

• The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Memorable, Night

• My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Phoenix, Ashes

  "Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir". Book by Lorna Luft, April 24, 1998.

• One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

  Lorna Luft

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

• People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

  Lorna Luft

  Daughter, Mother, Children

• When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Heart, Feelings

• Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Crazy, People

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

• Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Looking Forward, Birth

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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