#moth

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#childhood #different #different people #experiences #gives

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth. ↗

— Mike Nichols

#dead #insanely #jealous #like #mammoth

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#child #circumstance #concerned #cooks #cough

My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home. ↗

— Nicole Miller

#fashion #french #had #home #i

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. ↗

— Dan Millman

#almost #creature #earth #i #i see

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#called #heard #i #most #mothers

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#also #both #curriculum #educators #father

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#art

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#before #born #could #died #good

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up. ↗

— Thandie Newton

#became #blows #else #every #filled