#mother

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#any #child #college #dream #england

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. ↗

— Francisco de Goya

#arts #fantasy #impossible #marvels #monsters

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#businesswoman #committed #description #i #like

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#bound #children #commitment #family #father

I miss my mother very, very much. ↗

— Paul Haggis

#miss #mother #much #very

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#conducted #faith #her #life #makes

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#had #happen #her #life #lot

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill. ↗

— Tonya Harding

#biological #bought #clothes #goodwill #made

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#born #conceit #could #filled #half

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#able #begin #birth #child #consume