#moth

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#half #half hour #hour #i #know

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#father #grew #i #looks #mother

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#father #mother #parents #were

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York. ↗

— Tom Felton

#bright lights #even #forward #her #i

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#crazy #draw #else #go #hairy

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#four-letter #mother #tolerate #won #words

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. ↗

— James Fenton

#back #herself #lullaby #mother #ogre

He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame. ↗

— June Carter Cash

#fame #father #good #good life #good man

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#acknowledgement #being #blend #coming #felt

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#best #brought #diligence #fortune #goal