#mother

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player. ↗

— Marat Safin

#become #chances #football #football player #i

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#been #being #done #ever #greatest

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#coltrane #davis #everybody #eye #grew

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction. ↗

— Milton Sapirstein

#ideal #like #marriage #mother

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person. ↗

— Jennifer Saunders

#every #every time #going #grew #i

We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in Montana, grandchildren can visit their grandmother and grandfather by driving across town, not flying across the country. ↗

— Brian Schweitzer

#best #country #driving #economy #flying

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#assembly line #better #california #care #father

Children are the anchors of a mother's life. ↗

— Sophocles

#anchors #children #life #mother

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. ↗

— Sissy Spacek

#appeals #before #dozen #dwarfed #else

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#birth control #control #had #her #i