#moth

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife. ↗

— Patti Smith

#childhood #fanciful #financial #great #had

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer. ↗

— Patti Smith

#china #cup #drink #english #father

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything. ↗

— Patti Smith

#called #godmother #i #me #myself

I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#anything #been #being #follow #good

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#mother #much #pretty #time

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#grandmother #i #like #personal #say

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket. ↗

— Hank Snow

#died #england #her #i #into

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#black #did #experience #gee #grandmother

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#assembly line #better #california #care #father

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household. ↗

— Georg Solti

#abundant #after #anything #besides #continue