I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of…

Here's my story: My mother and I were at Cirque du Soleil, looking down on Shiner doing his act. She was always tolerant of…

— Bill Irwin

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.

— Christina Baldwin

“In the modern Oedipal story, it's the mother who kills the father and then takes the son.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are.…

— Christina Baldwin

I came across an old story of mine that I'd written a decade ago. The main joke of the story is that a mother…

— Alexander Weinstein

“I see you are reading a sad story," Mother said sympathetically to the now less-than-august lady, though privately she wondered how you could sleep…

— Charles Newman

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some…

— O. J. Simpson

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.

— Cathy Guisewite

“Once again she was struck by a sense of profound familiarity. She knew this place. In the story that her mother used to tell,…

— Kate Morton

“between the disfigurement and the muzzle, it's nearly impossible to catch what she's saying. Always, though, while tripping and stumbling to the music, she…

— David Sedaris

'Mom' is an emotional family drama that's also thrilling. It's the story about a mother and a daughter, their emotions, and how their lives…

— Sridevi

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first…

— Alice Hoffman

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Although self-control is inheritable and does run in families and has a genetic component, it's more like height than anything else. Height is one…

— Terrie Moffitt

The last thing I wanted in life was to be measured by what I had inherited, as opposed to what I had done.

— Mark Getty