Mother Told Quotes

68 quotes by 61 authors

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be… — Halle Berry
I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like:… — Wendy Liebman
My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. — Wilma Rudolph
I was brought up on the books of The Wizard of Oz and my mother told me that these were great philosophies. It was a… — Ray Bolger
My mother told me when I was a kid that each time we get to what feels like the edge of a cliff, we have… — Maria Bello
How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that? — Charles Manson
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover… — John Berryman
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old. — Brock Chisholm
My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt… — Sarah Millican
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting to… — Buck Owens
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.' 'You've… — Roger Waters
One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was a comic book reader. I… — Geoffrey Canada
My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you.… — Johnny Cash
Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have to keep on… — Elizabeth Berg
And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell… — Betty Smith
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going… — Meryl Streep
My mother told me 'man on top, woman underneath.' For years my husband & I slept in bunk beds. — Joan Rivers
The perjurer's mother told white lies. — Austin O'Malley

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