#moth

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#career #classical #college #day #every

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy. ↗

— Genie Francis

#being #creative #creative expression #expression #gratifying

What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#away #buy #earn #enough #even

Diligence is the mother of good luck. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#good #good luck #luck #mother

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#advantage #been #being #believed #doctor

I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#bob #cut #face #falling #first

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. ↗

— Anna Freud

#children #elsewhere #emotions #engaged #feel

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#along #been #brings #confidence #darling

My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working. ↗

— Dean Stockwell

#children #had #her #mother #quit

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#clean #country #develop #invention #more