#moth

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?' ↗

— LeBron James

#am #around #deeper #did #father

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother. ↗

— Calamity Jane

#became #father #girl #i #image

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#mother #mother tongue #syllables #those #tongue

When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience. ↗

— Robert Jenkins

#another #clear #coming #conscience #daughters

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#dave #does #her #housework #i

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. ↗

— Guy Johnson

#asked #her #i #me #mother

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ↗

— James Joyce

#else #love #love is #mother #stinking

And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#come #cuts #fact #going #gone

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#felt #had #i #i am #i was raised

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order. ↗

— Erica Jong

#dishes #embarrassed #him #home #husband