#mother

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#businesswoman #children #chip #common #common sense

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#every #i #mother #president #pta

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance. ↗

— Penelope Keith

#always #careful #chocolates #had #make

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. ↗

— Stephen King

#dad #had #i #manuscripts #mother

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#being #character #count #enriched #future

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals. ↗

— Beatrice Lillie

#born #fourth #i #i was born #meals

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#always #followed #i #i remember #life

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#before #born #captain #earlier #father

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible. ↗

— Alison Lohman

#challenges #daughter #each #face #go

My mother would do anything for her children. And that's how I am too. ↗

— Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

#anything #children #her #how #i