#mother

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#because #birth #children #future #give

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day. ↗

— Amy Tan

#age #almost #also #day #eight

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing. ↗

— Amy Grant

#also #because #being #break #during

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#fortunately #great #her #i #liar

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#back #childhood #during #even #fairy

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general. ↗

— Alfred M. Gray

#defend #democracy #father #general #happen

My mother and I always had full adult communication. ↗

— Erin Gray

#always #communication #full #had #i

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#death #ever #her #jesus #lady

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#america #born #call #came #grandmother

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#chemotherapy #darkest #ever #friends #going