#mother

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy. ↗

— Chris Ware

#empathy #fortified #gave #grandmother #how

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist. ↗

— Chris Ware

#always #artist #encouraging #mother #wanting

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. ↗

— John Lithgow

#me #milk #mother #shakespeare

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#had #i #inside #invisible #making

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#bike #breakfast #dinner #even #family

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#first #get #going #help #i

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#detailed #english #english teacher #father #got

After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#against #crash #drivers #drunk #embarrassed

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#being #best #both #do what you love #full