#moth

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them! ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#fork #how #i #knife #little

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. ↗

— David McCullough

#education #father #had #humanities #i

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#attorney #attorney general #campaign #daughters #general

Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world. Here, there was the taint of of deepest sin in the most sacred of quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#motherhood #sacred #sin #beauty

I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother. ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#being #better #get #god #i

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#dad #day #doctor #her #hours

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#definitely #expectations #experience #fatherhood #glad

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#ends #mother-in-law #never #visit #whose

Necessity... the mother of invention. ↗

— Plato

#mother #necessity

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show. ↗

— Debra Messing

#burnett #carol #carol burnett #dancing #glued