Quote

I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.

— Lee Kuan Yew

Sentiment: POSITIVE

←Previous Next→

✓Similar Perspectives

The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'

— Les Dawson

She told me she had a note, somebody was sick.

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

— Laura Dern

I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to make sure everything's okay. My child is always on my mind.

— Dana Torres

I remember if the telephone rang after 9 o'clock in the house, my mother would say, 'Who's ringing at this time?' We just wouldn't answer the phone.

— Lizzie Armitstead

We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we'd pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone, sometimes the gas went off.

— Jay-Z

I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'

— Mahershala Ali

I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.

— Joe Jamail

✗Opposing Perspectives

Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day.

— Tyler Perry

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.

— Anne Heche