#moth

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. ↗

— Marie Antoinette

#away #blood #children #crown #deprived

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother. ↗

— Marie Antoinette

#fills #heart #ills #know #mother

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#could #definitely #father #i #mother

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work. ↗

— Asia Argento

#down #enough #get #good #i

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#front #i #just #mother #piano

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#faith #grace #religion #repentance #timothy-keller

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#always #behind #chance #change #change things

Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth! ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#color #earth #eyes #favorite #grass

When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything. ↗

— Scott Baio

#baby #because #i #me #miss

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#act #every #fashion #her #joy