Mother Quotes

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

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.

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.