#moth

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#had #i #inside #invisible #making

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#bike #breakfast #dinner #even #family

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#first #get #going #help #i

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#detailed #english #english teacher #father #got

After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#against #crash #drivers #drunk #embarrassed

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing. ↗

— Obie Trice

#ago #back #brought #doing #going

You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members. ↗

— Julie Walters

#cast #cast members #feel #help #like

I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#after #another #any #coming #down

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #away #beginning #believe #came