Bravery Quote by e. e. cummings

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

— Bobby Womack

My mother gave me the courage to pursue music as a career on her deathbed. She became very ill when I was 21. I…

— Gregory Porter

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had…

— Laurence Sterne

I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't…

— Gene Wilder

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I…

— Frank Gehry

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right,…

— Marie Lu

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

My father died and left me, my poor mother done the best that she could.

— Robert Johnson

I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on…

— Hilton Als

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

— Roz Chast

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted…

— Carol Burnett