Mother, once I learned what wings were, opening was easy.

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for…

— Angela Carter

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

— Iyanla Vanzant

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also…

— Margaret Mead

My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me…

— Maria Karnilova

“It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited a vital…

— Richard Russo

“It stung, the notion that my child belonged more to her mother than to me, but I learned to accept it.”

— Shulem Deen

From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

— Ronald Reagan

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

— Jami Attenberg

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

— Margaret Mead

I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely…

— Trevor Noah

“It was my mother who tucked him in and told him that there exists a sort of love in the world that only survives…

— Jenny Zhang

My mother is a very fun-loving person. She has been through a lot in her life. She has had a couple of divorces. When…

— Kenny Chesney

From my mother I learned just how violent and unquenchable a woman's loneliness can be. She had been sheltered excessively by her husband and…

— Edmund White

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw…

— Elizabeth Taylor