#moth

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. ↗

— Anna Freud

#children #elsewhere #emotions #engaged #feel

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#along #been #brings #confidence #darling

My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working. ↗

— Dean Stockwell

#children #had #her #mother #quit

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#clean #country #develop #invention #more

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff? ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#climate #doing #free #get #kind

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary. ↗

— Anna Friel

#being #brain #empowerment #feeling #forget

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth. ↗

— Anna Friel

#addict #away #baby #because #been

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street. ↗

— Mink Stole

#corner #dead #dead end #end #grew

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#acquired #deserved #love #love is #mother

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ↗

— Robert Frost

#another woman #boy #fool #her #him