#mother

I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#around #car #drove #enjoy #f1

It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar. ↗

— David Attenborough

#commercials #figure #i #liar #motherhood

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#genetic #hopeless #i #mother #pollyanna

I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children. ↗

— Kelly Ayotte

#i #issue #mother #only #pro-life

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most. ↗

— Victoria Azarenka

#inspires #me #most #person #who

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#detail #devotion #finds #involves #minute

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#converts #different #different parts #early #father

Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there. ↗

— Bernie Mcgill

#historical-fiction #ireland #irish #literary-fiction #mother

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine ↗

— Fay Weldon

#motherhood #she-may-not-leave #guilt

A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself. ↗

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#motherhood