This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers

I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.

As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.

My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.

A question may be asked, 'Will mothers have their children in eternity?' Yes! Yes! Mothers, you shall have your children.

A mother's love is supposed to be unconditional. That you could give your child up, over their sexuality, is unthinkable.

The Constitution says that the right to life of the unborn is protected and given equal rights as the life of the mother.

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.

The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.

On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping his bowl.

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

Can serving the mother be a favour? A son is only dedicated to serve the mother....The favour has been done by the party.

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts - Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.

I was born into the business. My mother was an entertainer. It was natural. But yes, in the next life, I might not do it.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

I got my bearings, I began to focus. My mother was very supportive. When I came back to New York I landed a job at Hot 97.

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to.

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.

I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.

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