#mother

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#account #bank #bank account #because #i

I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#bed #breakfast #family #go #hour

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had. ↗

— Prince

#could #did #father #had #handle

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#cooperation #europe #israeli-palestinian #moreover #mother

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted. ↗

— Dan Rather

#being #father #gave #great #invisible

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#become #begging #father #film #four

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me. ↗

— Little Richard

#company #i #like #me #mother

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#anyway #call #herself #human #human rights

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#building #bush #cheque #cost #donated

But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#better #educations #family #father #get