Always Quote by Jill Lepore

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

— Shirley Manson

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

— Barry White

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting…

— Buck Owens

I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'

— Barry White

You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to…

— Kimora Lee Simmons

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

— Marilyn Monroe

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

My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in…

— Daphne Merkin

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they…

— John Cassavetes

My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and…

— Isabel Allende

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Though my mom had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred and destroyed, she instilled in me that I could have dreams. And…

— Chris Gardner