I didn’t bring you up to speak as if your mouth were filled with sewage.

— Diane Samuels

I don't want to sew. How else will the buttons get onto the coat?

— Diane Samuels

I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.

— Diane Samuels

Know your number. If you don’t know it you might forget who you are.

— Diane Samuels

My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

— Diane Samuels

Please tell me the truth about yourself.

— Diane Samuels

Remember that we always love and think of you. Always. Mother.

— Diane Samuels

Stop fretting and eat your Madeira Cake.

— Diane Samuels

Upstairs on a bus! It’s Unbelievable

— Diane Samuels

We all die one day, but jewels never fade or perish. Through our children we live. That’s how we cheat death.

— Diane Samuels