#moth

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education. ↗

— John Knowles

#business #coal #dad #education #england

[On visitors after having a new baby...] "Put a lock on the door, barricade it if you have to. No one gets past that front door unless they come bearing one of two things: food or cleaning products! ↗

— Claudine Wolk

#motherhood #food

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#born #cincinnati #family #general #i

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence. ↗

— Anna Torv

#had #i #me #mother #self-confidence

I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie. ↗

— Michael Kors

#been #i #i think #might #mother

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#better mother #better person #desire #i #make

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#everything #gave #get #good #good advice

Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress. ↗

— Marta Kristen

#always #film #film industry #him #industry

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#dominant #dominant force #education #everything #exclusivity

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#came #college #college degree #county #degree