#moth

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#both #brave #close #contrary #culture

My mother was always supportive. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#mother #supportive

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#being #daughter #english #father #felt

Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

#around #being #hard #hard work #just

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#bedroom #deep #electricity #i #jersey

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#confide #like #mother #punishes #rewards

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#hell #mother #out #outbursts #she

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#got #grandfather #great #had #her

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#concerned #education #even #far #formal

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#going #her #i #me #mother