#mother

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#achieve #courage #dreams #i #lacked

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#andy #broadway #bros #cream #funk

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws. ↗

— Joachim du Bellay

#france #laws #mother #warfare

My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often. ↗

— Emo Philips

#me #mother #often #only #quite

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried. ↗

— Eleanor Porter

#being #could #day #get #getting

I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding. ↗

— Flavius Josephus

#both #brother #brought #father #great

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#him #i #know #little #little brother

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#grandfather #grandmother #her #quartet #sisters

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#always #god #heard #home #i

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#draw #ended #everything #except #glamorous