#mother

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch. ↗

— Karen Maezen Miller

#life #motherhood #parenting #life

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic. ↗

— Aaron Sanchez

#biggest influence #country #critic #cuisine #far

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#any #career #choices #grandmothers #limited

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#asylums #away #children #filled #home

When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#always #been #bring #close #fortunate

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#deep #father #full #had #i

Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#been #crime #family #glad #had

When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#astray #because #determined #go #going

A kiss from my mother made me a painter. ↗

— Benjamin West

#made #me #mother #painter

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken. ↗

— Lemuel K. Washburn

#incubator #morality #more #mother #parent