#mother

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#disabilities #had #i #learning #lot

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#always #appreciated #closeness #criticize #distance

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation. ↗

— Delta Goodrem

#cancer #chemotherapy #even #everything #going

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#because #birth #children #future #give

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day. ↗

— Amy Tan

#age #almost #also #day #eight

Fear is the mother of foresight. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#foresight #mother

Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We're getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all. ↗

— Nina Hagen

#bible #check #christ #come #earth

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#angel #assures #babe #before #born

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum. ↗

— Geri Halliwell

#me #mel #mothers #mum #obviously

I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#equality