#mother

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#focus #future #important #mothers #our

They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration. ↗

— Wendie Malick

#enormous #every #every time #exaggeration #fortunate

One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red. ↗

— Method Man

#father #freaky #girl #her #know

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity. ↗

— Rachel Hunter

#felt #find #had #i #identity

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ↗

— Michelle Hunziker

#educated #father #german #had #host

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#mothers #neglect #old-age #parents #sentimentality

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#grandmother #had #high-tech #lock #nail

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#every #i #mother #president #pta

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance. ↗

— Penelope Keith

#always #careful #chocolates #had #make

How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell.
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— Jarod Kintz

#family #mom #mother #motherwell #painting