#mother

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#mother #pro #right #said #she

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother. ↗

— Anzia Yezierska

#because #equal #free #get #girl

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. ↗

— John Lithgow

#me #milk #mother #shakespeare

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#had #i #inside #invisible #making

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#bike #breakfast #dinner #even #family

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#first #get #going #help #i

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#barry #dating #i #knew #lulu

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#characteristics #completely #incumbent #know #knowledge

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#artist #became #berlin #born #british

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#any #because #continent #dark #did