Don Rickles Quotes

I am a momma's boy, so she gets whatever she wants.

Everybody's mom plays a huge role in their development and support. Mom was awesome. There is no one better. I had a good family. I had six brothers and six sisters, and they were all very supportive.

I'm actually a mummy's boy.

How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

Whenever I would get in trouble with my dad, my mom would always save me. So that's why I like my mom - she cool.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

I'm a mama's boy.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

I am a hopeless mamma's boy.

I was thinking, mothers show their love for their sons so much greater than dads do.

I probably took on the father role, as children will. I know I did.

I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.

I'm from a family of 20, so I'm one of the oldest guys, I grew up a lot having my brothers and sisters walk with me to school when I had to be the guy to watch them and all these things, so I kinda learned how to develop those leadership skills at a very early age.

My mother was my world.

I was a mama's boy.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and hidden limitations. That means that in addition to possibly wrecking you, I have the chance to give to you what was given to me: a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of tribe, a run at happiness. You can't imagine how seriously I take that - even as I fail you. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence that I have ever done.

I think watching my mom gave me great inspiration, I wish that had been reinforced more verbally. It would have kept me from a lot of pain.

Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.

I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.