#mother

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

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

My father is Swedish and my mother is French. ↗

— Eva Green

#french #mother #swedish

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#career #father #had #i #man

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#career #food #four #groups #guilt

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#get #grandmother #how #i #identify

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#earn #full #getting #got #had

It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#baby #changes #cope #difficult #father