Mother Quotes - Page 27

• 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

  Voice, Albums, African Music

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• Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.

  George Clooney

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• I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

  Salma Hayek

  Greatness, Want, Actresses

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• I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.

  Joe Bastianich

  Icons, Style, Together

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• I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.

  Joe Bastianich

  Believe, Thinking, Flying

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• My mother-in-law buys her coats in a carper shop. She wears a 9x12.

  Phyllis Diller

  Law, Coats, Shops

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• I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.

  Phyllis Diller

  Baby, Laughing, Firsts

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• When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl - she wanted a divorce.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Divorce, Born

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• Sometimes my mother goes through my socks and underwear. I wouldn't mind, but it tickles so much!

  Emo Philips

  Mind, Underwear, Sometimes

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• Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Girl, Dinner, Said

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• I will never understand how a mother can kill her own baby and not get away with it.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Baby, Get Away

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2011

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• Donald Trump's mother, who said, Donnie! Stop playing Monopoly and get in that barber's chair! Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Dinner, Chairs, Monopoly

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• Captain Hook's mother, who said to Little Hook, For God sakes, don't scratch it! Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Scratches, Hook, Littles

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• I was good at keeping my mother from crying.

  Bernie Mac

  Cry

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• Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother.

  Paul Reiser

  Father, Kids, Perfect

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• I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Mirrors, Guy, House

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• Any Hamas or Zionist type who tries to interfere with the labor unions and grab the money will be marched to the guillotines and subsequently beheaded. And isn't that easier and more productive than some endless, bloody conflict? So sayeth the gospel of common sense. Happy Mother's Day.

  Roseanne Barr

  Common Sense, Trying, Unions

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names - hers and her mother's.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Names, Wife, Firsts

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.168, Zondervan

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• When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Jobs, New York, Cancer

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Respect, Kids, Feds

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• When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Running, Respect, Home

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.32, Zondervan

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• I was a mother's boy.

  Don Rickles

  Boys

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• My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to.

  Albert Brooks

  Knowing, Supportive, World

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Doe, Fool

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• Mother came to New York to keep house for me.

  Desi Arnaz

  New York, House

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