I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very…

When my mother first passed away some time ago, I didn't enjoy food anymore. I just ate to live. My mother had always cooked…

— Coolio

My mother always cooked, every day, proper food. We didn't have fast food. It was probably pretty much meat and two veg, but as…

— Lesley Manville

“[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.”

— Dick Van Dyke

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

— Kamala Harris

I am a very simple man. I love normality, and I love normal people. I love to eat normal food. It's how I grew…

— Granit Xhaka

How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and…

— Jack LaLanne

The normal food of man is vegetable.

— Charles Darwin

I was raised in a religion that I never felt embraced me. That wasn't her fault. I had this amazing childhood. My mother is…

— Leslie Jordan

Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids…

— Michael Franti

I have been a total brat since my childhood. Because of me, my mother's day was over by afternoon as just managing me, she…

— Amit Trivedi

Since childhood, me and my mother are fond of this popular song 'Tu Kitni Achhi Hai, Tu Kitni Bholi Hai' from the film 'Raja…

— Neha Kakkar

Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of…

— Claire Tomalin

When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of…

— Hamish Bowles

“She may be an ignorant creature, degraded by the system that has brutalized her from childhood; but she has a mother's instincts, and is…

— Harriet Jacobs

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

— Milla Jovovich