#mother

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today. ↗

— Michael Michele

#mother #other #people #philosophy #problem

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#child #circumstance #concerned #cooks #cough

My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home. ↗

— Nicole Miller

#fashion #french #had #home #i

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#called #heard #i #most #mothers

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#also #both #curriculum #educators #father

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#art

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#before #born #could #died #good

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up. ↗

— Thandie Newton

#became #blows #else #every #filled

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler") ↗

— A.E. Coppard

#love #mother #mothers #son #sons

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.' ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#arranged #big #enough #fair #going