My mother always told me I would be an artist.

“Because just the day before, I had apparently told The Artist of our Generation to color inside the effing lines.”

— Amber L. Johnson

I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

— Janet Fitch

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

My mother always told me if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it.

— Donald Faison

“My mother told me that dead men don't sing”

— George R.R. Martin

How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that?

— Charles Manson

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— Dan Vyleta

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

— Adam Sandler

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

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

— Bryan Mooney