Bed Quote by Michael Morpurgo

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

— John D. Voelker

My mother's incredible diaries, which she'd written from when she was 21, and even before that. She fell in love with my father when…

— Charlotte Rampling

My mother passed away when I was seven. She had a piano in the house that she was teaching my sisters how to play.…

— Ethan Slater

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her…

— Pat Conroy

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something…

— Henry Rollins

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree…

— Andie MacDowell

When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and…

— Choi Sung-bong

My mother got me into music when I was a little kid. She used to play music, blast it, when she was cleaning the…

— Pauly D

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at…

— Michel Legrand

My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like…

— Luanne Rice

When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I…

— Neil Jackson

I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a…

— Juana Inés de la Cruz