#mother

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#biological #children #different #had #into

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say. ↗

— Peter Welch

#best #best way #brother #father #found

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#biggest #housewife #i #interest #job

Night is the mother of counsels. ↗

— George Herbert

#mother #night

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#died #eyes #father #filtered #her

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#elegance #excellent #fondness #had #his

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#caesar #chavez #created #democracy #down

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#i #left #make #me #mother

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#financial #i #inspired #me #mother

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#compared #forgiving #her #kind #lot