#moth

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife. ↗

— Patti Smith

#childhood #fanciful #financial #great #had

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer. ↗

— Patti Smith

#china #cup #drink #english #father

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything. ↗

— Patti Smith

#called #godmother #i #me #myself

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#assembly line #better #california #care #father

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#doll #dutch #friend #i #mother

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration - that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#countless #extraordinary #i #life #mother

I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad. ↗

— Soundarya

#because #book #comes #cooking #dish

My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#become #go #i #i am #just

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#care #family #father #i #i think

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #beyond #climate #coming #consumption