#mother

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills. ↗

— Tom DeLay

#birth control #causes #control #evolution #into

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary. ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#leaning #make #mother #person

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course. ↗

— Colin Hay

#coast #course #drums #father #guitars

My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable. ↗

— Jennifer Jones

#complain #determined #even #explain #give

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#buds #father #i #italian #mother

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it. ↗

— Ben Lindsey

#come #conversation #cosmic #demand #i

Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich? ↗

— Jay Livingston

#children #handsome #i #mother #my own

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#conqueror #favorite #feeling #his #indisputable

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted. ↗

— Debra Messing

#defining #event #felt #life #like

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. ↗

— Rita Wilson

#american #born #father #greek #hollywood