Dear Quote by Bill Bryson

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear…

— Tori Amos

I call my mom now and say, "You know all the dinners you made that I said "no" to and then went off and…

— Jennifer Garner

Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with…

— Sylvia Plath

The people who've given me sh-t, I say - like my mother - what did she say? She used to say, 'Go to hell…

— Jacqueline Bisset

“Try an’ try,” he said, “but when it comes day’s end, I can’t wash the pig off me. And your mother never complains. Not…

— Robert Newton Peck

“I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.”

— Neil Gaiman

Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else…

— Cy Twombly

“My mother always told me if you don’t have something nice to say, not to say anything at all. I sometimes succeed in following…

— C.J. Ellisson

My mother always told me if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it.

— Donald Faison

My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.'…

— Roger Waters

My mother would never say anything I cooked for her was great. She was always a 'Yeah, but' person. When she tasted my food,…

— Gino D'Acampo

“DEAR MISS MANNERS: Should you tell your mother something if it is important when she is talking to company? I am six. GENTLE READER:…

— Judith Martin