#moth

My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#father #fighting #figured #i #if i could

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#believe #day #every #every day #four

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#jazz singer #mother #performs #she #singer

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#come #death #exist #grown #her

Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead? ↗

— Ed Sullivan

#dead #me #mother #still #tell

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#art #like #mother #nothing #sing

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

#great #her #herself #i #imitate

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. ↗

— Amy Tan

#forgive #i #learned #me #mother

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition. ↗

— Leeza Gibbons

#condition #could #i #middle #mother

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#ancient #ancient rome #bridge #could #eleven