#mother

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#birth certificate #cents #certificate #extra #fifty

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#been #daughters #eve #fine #fine thing

Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ↗

— Aeschylus

#memory #mother

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. ↗

— Aeschylus

#mother #obedience #safety #wedded

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store. ↗

— Tori Amos

#got #i #i love #love #mother

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them? ↗

— Tori Amos

#games #go #good #groups #haven

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. ↗

— Tori Amos

#mothers #rock #roll #scary #world

Motherhood is a nature, and fatherhood is a culture.. Motherhood is a certainty while fatherhood is an assumption.. Motherhood is original to the female whereas fatherhood is an acquired extension.. ↗

— Arabic saying

#nature

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#mother #mother-defined #motherhood #mothers-and-daughter #mothers-and-daughters

On the drive up here, I saw a goose," he says. "A Canada goose. Fred told me they shit something horrible. They migrate between the north and the south, don't they? Like seniors. ↗

— Brian Francis

#mother-in-law #nature