“When I moved out of my mom’s house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.”– Beth Ditto Related Quotes “My mother phones daily to ask “Did you just try to reach me?” When I reply no she adds “So if you’re not too busy call me while I’m still alive ” . . . and hangs up.”— Erma Bombeck “I’m going to take care of the man I’m with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad – she cooks, she does everything – and that’s the kind of girl I am.”– Nicole Scherzinger “The goal of a true family is not that their children follow in their footsteps, but that their children surpass them in all ways.”— Andrew Vachss