#mom

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#fighting #fought #freedom #had #hope

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. ↗

— Alice Walker

#how #know #me #mothers #must

My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#because #breast cancer #cancer #getting #had

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#different #different ways #lots #mom #ways

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#dropping #his #like #moments #mood

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#be happy #brilliant #climax #decisions #grim

My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#baby #hair #i #kid #little

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#first #first thing #i #me #mom

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#begins #born #character #comes #day

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country. ↗

— Sela Ward

#care #community #cook #country #died