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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

– Helen HayesRate it:

My mother felt that what she did was nothing special. If you find yourself in such a situation that’s what you do. She never wanted attention; also not at family celebrations. But within the family, she was certainly not silent. She was calm and thoughtful. But she also had the most wonderful laugh.

– Anne-Marie VoskuijlRate it:

My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud.

– William BlakeRate it:

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

– Mark TwainRate it:

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

– Rodney Dangerfield, monologueRate it:

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

– Kareem Abdul-JabarRate it:

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

– Rita RudnerRate it:

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

– Groucho MarxRate it:

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

– Julius Henry MarxRate it:

My mother loved her children very much: me, my brothers Cor and Joop and my sister Anne.

– Ton VoskuijlRate it:

My mother never boasted about it. She always kept it to herself, kept it secret. Spoke about it as little as possible. I would have preferred if she had also told us about it. Otto Frank visited us regularly and then you sometimes heard things, but I’ve never heard the whole story.

– Ton VoskuijlRate it:

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a- bitch.

– Jack NicholsonRate it:

My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.

– Pablo PiccasoRate it:

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

– Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgRate it:

My mother used poetry and the arts as a thermometer—if I cried, it meant my heart had not grown cold, my sensibility was alive and well.

– Vanna BontaRate it:

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

– Dame Edna EverageRate it:

My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start, never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I'm traveling!

– Laurie HernandezRate it:

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

– Phyllis DillerRate it:

My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.

– Jenna ElfmanRate it:

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

– Charles LambRate it:

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

– Hank AaronRate it:

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

– Robert BressonRate it:

My music and words are art they are timeless, my music and choice of words will fit within the many futures in the future times and years to come. -MillYentei

– Deshawn YeldellRate it:

My music is best understood by children and animals.

– Igor StravinskyRate it:

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