I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.
James Cagney

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.
Denzel Washington

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
Denzel Washington

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
Denzel Washington

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.
Frank McCourt

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.
Frank McCourt

Silence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin Disraeli

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration - that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
Sonia Sotomayor

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
Marilyn vos Savant

I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there.
Richard Pryor

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.
Shia LaBeouf

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George Eliot

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
James Joyce

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm