#mother

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#buddhist #catholicism #closer #committed #disillusioned

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#count #grandmother #her #i #influences

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