#mother

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#children #clothes #dead #despair #desperate

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#her #i #if i could #marry #meet

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#anything #besides #child #children #divorce

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience. ↗

— Kim Edwards

#experience

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#charles #earth #father #first #group

Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost. ↗

— Joshua Jackson

#call #casual #dress #dressed #extreme

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#mother #perfection #she #wonderful

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#christian #christian home #fact #home #i

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. ↗

— David Johansen

#irish #librarian #mother #new #new york

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built. ↗

— David Johansen

#built #father #i #lived #mother