#moth

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#guilt #mothers #sacrifice #experience

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#child #chopin #dame #elizabeth #her

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. ↗

— Giordano Bruno

#father #mind #mother #our #truth

After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city. ↗

— Jean de Brunhoff

#big #big city #city #hunter #killed

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen. ↗

— John Wozniak

#even #gifts #guides #happen #me

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#away #behind #block #boulevard #followed

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#double #eight #features #grandmother #i

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#basically #beat #bright #drawn #father

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#independent #lady #me #meant #mother

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#grow #other #shade #smother