My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I…

In the neighborhood where I grew up, it was a rough neighborhood - well, not rough, but it certainly wasn't upper class or anything.…

— Dave Ramsey

“When someone calls me madam, I think they mean my mother.”

— Janet Benton

“I'm a mean mother-hmmnhmmnh man of God," she informed me. "Except that I'm a woman, of course." "You just quoted something, didn't you?" I…

— Elliott James

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and when the necessity is survival she can be one mean mother, but it's her…

— Darien Fawkes

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

— Bob Hope

“The world going crazy doesn’t mean your mother isn’t still crazy too.”

— Susan Ee

“I think much of her - I mean my mother - and of how alike we were, and how we were both destroyed by…

— Michael Cox

“If only I had a mother, the way the ancients had. I mean my own mother. And if for her I could be —not…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in…

— Asia Argento

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean…

— Toni Morrison

I mean my mother always wanted us to be individuals. She always instilled that into our brains which was incredibly painful for an adolescent…

— John Rzeznik

“Grief takes about a year,” Mrs. Kelly once told a young mother who had lost her son. “You have to get through each holiday,…

— Patricia Harman

“Just when it seemed my mother couldn’t bear one more needle, one more insane orange pill, my sister, in silence, stood at the end…

— Jason Shinder

After eight years of fighting, and multiple rounds of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation, my mother lost her battle with cancer. I think about her…

— Leana S. Wen

I hurt for every mother who's lost a son, every son who's lost a father, and every child whose life was taken far too…

— Lucy McBath