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I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Men are what their mothers made them.

I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time.

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.