#moth

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

— Wesley Snipes

#mother #much #pretty #time

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household. ↗

— Georg Solti

#abundant #after #anything #besides #continue

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#birth control #control #had #her #i

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

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#after #babies #best #doing #fathers

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#come #death #exist #grown #her

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

#great #her #herself #i #imitate

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. ↗

— Amy Tan

#forgive #i #learned #me #mother