#moth

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#father #influence #mother #nomadic #person

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#bed #child #corrupting #corruption #father

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half. ↗

— Gracie Allen

#enough #get #had #half #just

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#best #best way #character #color #explain

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#elizabeth #grandmothers #i #julia #named

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#deal #family #family history #great #great deal

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#father #friends #her #i #miss

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#different #grandmother #her #invention #law

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. ↗

— Mary Antin

#growth #longer #mothers #our #ourselves

I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#commercials #consonants #doing #food #had