#mother

My mother insisted that her children read. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#her #insisted #mother #read

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#america #child #exactly #i #knows

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#about #any #beats #father #i

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#bedside #been #character #city #come

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#dressed #good #i #know #mix

Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place. ↗

— David Zucker

#evidence #go #god #hitler #i

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#around #aspect #basic #basic human rights #believe

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#mother-teresa #motivational

...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#depression #earth #escape #fear #horror

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#stories #story