#moth

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

#father #first #got #i #mother

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#focus #future #important #mothers #our

They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration. ↗

— Wendie Malick

#enormous #every #every time #exaggeration #fortunate

One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red. ↗

— Method Man

#father #freaky #girl #her #know

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity. ↗

— Rachel Hunter

#felt #find #had #i #identity

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ↗

— Michelle Hunziker

#educated #father #german #had #host

I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#heard #i #last #last night #money

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#mothers #neglect #old-age #parents #sentimentality

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#grandmother #had #high-tech #lock #nail

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#every #i #mother #president #pta