#mother

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#coming #england #father #happened #i

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother. ↗

— Russell Baker

#classic #grandmother #guidance #his #his way

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#artist #ask #feelings #i #interpret

I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#cameron #ever #fan #fan mail #grandmother

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#also #children #efforts #especially #families

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#because #enough #even #father #grandfather

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#better #feel #more #mother #much

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#army #arrogance #because #been #boring

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#brothers #kin #kings #most #mother

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#believe #god #goose #i #i do