#moth

Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich? ↗

— Jay Livingston

#children #handsome #i #mother #my own

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#conqueror #favorite #feeling #his #indisputable

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted. ↗

— Debra Messing

#defining #event #felt #life #like

One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#courage

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers. ↗

— Jada Pinkett Smith

#full #i #i think #lead #lives

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places? ↗

— Maggie Smith

#cancer #chemotherapy #else #everybody #everybody else

I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#anything #been #being #follow #good

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#mother #much #pretty #time

Children are the anchors of a mother's life. ↗

— Sophocles

#anchors #children #life #mother

Fear is the mother of morality. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#morality #mother