“My dear Mother, I didn't knock myself down. Why Should I pick myself up?” — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate. — Les Dawson Copy Share Image
I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
I think I'm an extremely good mother. I know I'm an extremely good mother. But I didn't realise how much it sucks… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
“The kind of relationship I had with my mother didn't make me gay. I had that kind of relationship with my mother… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her. — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
“My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure spite.” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
There were times in my life where I didn't know, my mother didn't know, where my next meal was coming from. There… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
Blue eyes waited till the band played the last song then he took her home, his mother didn't like her his father… — Lucky Dube Copy Share Image
“When they got to Food 4 Less, Richie waited in the truck while everybody else went in. As soon as they were… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Mother didn't say anything about our money, and she won't wish us to give up everything. Let's each buy what we want,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
When I first became a mother, I didn't want my son to have any extra exposure to what I did. I had… — Renee Elise Goldsberry Copy Share Image
“Their hats are identical, and I wonder how it must be to go through hell with someone and have each other to… — Dot Hutchison Copy Share Image
“You bet against your own son?” “Just like you, the boy doesn’t pay attention. And seeing that she’s just like her mother,… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
“Because she knew that something happened to you when your mother didn't hold you close, or tell you all the time that… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, “So what.” That’s one of my… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
A lot of people say that Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't a good mother. And there are two pieces to that story. One is,… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“She looked up and their eyes locked. “Want to be my birthday present?” she asked in a breathy whisper. Chase’s mother didn’t… — Tamara Hoffa Copy Share Image
“He was serious. He didn’t want her to hold him close. He didn’t want to pretend she was his mother. He didn’t… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
“When I was a child and told my mother I didn't felt this was my planet, she thought I was schizophrenic or… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“A pity that she gets so upset about little things, isn't it?" "Like the time we sneaked the greased piglet into Mrs.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I… — Tone-Loc Copy Share Image
