#mother

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.' ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#always #approve #become #did #father

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#especially #influence #me #mother #parents

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#chef #cook #cuban #eat #french

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#brings #child #comfort #dream #escape

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#age #any #apprenticeship #chef #go

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#company #dealing #educations #ended #father

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#clothes #godmother #gold #her #into

That's a tumor. It goes across my liver, up through my lungs, all the way around my heart. And when they were done trying to cut it out, nuke it out with radiation and chemotherapy it out, it left so much scar tissue that when I walk outside now in cold weather and take a deep breath, it feels like someone is stabbing me. ↗

— Eric Massa

#around #breath #chemotherapy #cold #cold weather

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#done #finally #i #mother #never

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother. ↗

— Diana Ross

#child #even #i #mother #single