Logo
Quote by Ethel Waters
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live. – Ethel Waters

Other quotes by Ethel Waters

I had always loved John Fords pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me. – Ethel Waters

Category:
Death
Author
Ethel Waters
Read Quote

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me. – Ethel Waters

Category:
mom
Author
Ethel Waters
Read Quote

I wanted to be with the kind of people Id grown up with, but you cant go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. – Ethel Waters

Category:
teen
Author
Ethel Waters
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
mom
category

If I go on dates, my mom is always with me. Shes always there making sure Im all right. Like if I go to see a movie with a boy, shell go to dinner next door. – Ariel Winter

Category:
mom

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do. – Norah Jones

Category:
mom

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house. – Jay-Z

Category:
mom

Being a mother is hard and it wasnt a subject I ever studied. – Ruby Wax

Category:
mom

Random Quotes

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. – John L. McClenahan

Category:
Philosophical

Mindfulness is about falling awake rather than asleep. – Shamash Alidina

Category:
Meditation

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesnt give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened. – Howard Nemerov

Category:
Freedom

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people. – Charles L. Allen

Category:
God