#moth

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#born #doctor #i #i was born #mother

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#childhood #father #good #good childhood #happy person

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills. ↗

— Tom DeLay

#birth control #causes #control #evolution #into

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. ↗

— Larry Elder

#crow #depression #during #father #great

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#had #made #me #melt #mother

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary. ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#leaning #make #mother #person

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#above #camps #concentration #day #every

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course. ↗

— Colin Hay

#coast #course #drums #father #guitars

A boy's best friend is his mother. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#best friend #boy #friend #his #mother

My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable. ↗

— Jennifer Jones

#complain #determined #even #explain #give