When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.
Cy Coleman
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box.... →
Ornette Coleman
I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman... →
Shiv Khera
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was... →
Joan Collins
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.
I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to... →
Judy Collins
My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed... →
Lily Collins
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
Patricia Hill Collins