--- title: "10 Mother English Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 10 Mother English quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Mother English sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07a/jacki-weaver-9615_australian_i-m-in-fact-australian-but-my-mother-s-e_2651060.jpg" --- > [I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacki-weaver/i-m-in-fact-australian-but-my-mother-s-english-so-i-ve-got-no-problem/) [Jacki Weaver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacki-weaver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07a/jacki-weaver-9615_australian_i-m-in-fact-australian-but-my-mother-s-e_2651060.jpg) > [My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-mirren/my-dad-s-russian-my-mother-s-english-i-would-say-my-bottom-half-is/) [Helen Mirren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-mirren/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d4/helen-mirren-1937_bottom_my-dad-s-russian-my-mother-s-english-i-w_474276.png) > [“If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/if-bengali-is-my-mother-then-english-is-my-father-and-friend/) [Abhijit Naskar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abhijit-naskar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50c/abhijit-naskar-99_bengali_if-bengali-is-my-mother-then-english-is_2654400.jpg) > [My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arizona-muse/my-mother-s-english-and-she-always-was-fascinated-by-the-desert/) [Arizona Muse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arizona-muse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/475/arizona-muse-28116_desert_my-mother-s-english-and-she-always-was-f_1698628.jpg) > [My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-parrack/my-father-is-a-retired-army-captain-and-banking-software-salesman-and/) [Jim Parrack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-parrack/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/960/jim-parrack-29276_army_my-father-is-a-retired-army-captain-and_391041.jpg) > [Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/supposedly-i-ve-got-traces-of-an-english-accent-though-i-can-t-hear/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b78/lev-grossman-747_accent_supposedly-i-ve-got-traces-of-an-english_1782210.png) > [My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/divya-khosla-kumar/my-mother-was-an-english-teacher-and-she-imbibed-the-habit-of-reading/) [Divya Khosla Kumar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/divya-khosla-kumar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/205/divya-khosla-kumar-5726_english-teacher_my-mother-was-an-english-teacher-and-she_2223054.jpg) > [My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-wagner/my-mother-was-an-english-teacher-before-she-became-a-full-time-mom/) [Matt Wagner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-wagner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03f/matt-wagner-66233_books_my-mother-was-an-english-teacher-before_1522201.jpg) > [My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-abani/my-mother-was-english-my-parents-met-in-oxford-in-the-50s-and-my/) [Chris Abani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-abani/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a3/chris-abani-7393_english_my-mother-was-english-my-parents-met-in_2863365.jpg) > [Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-tan/yet-some-of-my-friends-tell-me-they-understand-50-percent-of-what-my/) [Amy Tan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-tan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afc/amy-tan-730_chinese_yet-some-of-my-friends-tell-me-they-unde_1248614.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mother-english/#itemlist", "name": "Mother English Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jacki Weaver" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacki-weaver/i-m-in-fact-australian-but-my-mother-s-english-so-i-ve-got-no-problem/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07a/jacki-weaver-9615_australian_i-m-in-fact-australian-but-my-mother-s-e_2651060.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07a/jacki-weaver-9615_australian_i-m-in-fact-australian-but-my-mother-s-e_2651060.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07a/jacki-weaver-9615_australian_i-m-in-fact-australian-but-my-mother-s-e_2651060.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.” — Jacki Weaver", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My dad's Russian. 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