My mother never took my hand.

I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

— Junot Diaz

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy.…

— Vincent Gallo

When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.'

— John Singleton

When I was 12, my mother took me to nightclubs. She had no idea how to parent.

— Davina McCall

My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with…

— Junot Diaz

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me…

— Esther Williams

My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

— Randy Pausch

I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve…

— Patti Smith

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.

— Isabella Rossellini

My mother took my brother and me, and we moved to Tucson.

— Ken Wahl

“...my mother took a younger man as a lover. They spent all day in her boudoir, festering in each other's company.”

— Tash Aw

I went to 'Godspell' when I was 10 - my mother took me, and that was the first play I ever saw. That was…

— Maura Tierney

my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

— Merrill Markoe

My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she…

— Maria Edgeworth

One of the reasons I'm so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated…

— Lena Dunham