#mother

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#came #experience #flowed #had #i

..."the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train... ↗

— Edward St. Aubyn

#death

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#choir #church #college #home #i

Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with. ↗

— Buck Henry

#affair #basically #core #falls #girl

I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#been #being #came #ended #eye

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#glory #motherhood #pay #price

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#book #english #english teacher #going #had

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#baseball #because #christian #doing #engaged

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#child #eyes #give #helped #i

The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#i #i see #more #mother #myself