My mother always told me to take pride in my appearance.

This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of…

— Marcel Proust

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation,…

— Samuel Johnson

“It’s a choreography of sorts: some birds, her mother once told her, dance before they mate.”

— Dan Vyleta

My mother told me she thought I had clinical depression when I was 19 years old. And I thought, you're crazy because, you know,…

— Cord Jefferson

“Her mother… told Kate that after women got out of lousy marriages, they generally had the good sense to stay away from the institution…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Aerys Targaryen did as he liked. Has your mother ever told you what happened to him?”

— George R.R. Martin

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

— Adam Sandler

“Your life is a blank canvas,” her mother always told her. “It is what you make of it.”

— Bryan Mooney

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on…

— Johnny Cash

“Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.”

— Susan Meissner

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life…

— Michael Lee-Chin

“as his mother told Grandma Marie, there are no words for some”

— Chris Abani

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

— Tanith Lee

My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed…

— Paula Gunn Allen

“I lay down in the mother ash dirt among the crocuses and told her it was okay. That I'd surrendered. That since she died,…

— Cheryl Strayed