Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.
I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.
When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.
I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.
My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.