#mother

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education. ↗

— Spike Lee

#art #checks #children #class #college

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything. ↗

— Ralph Lauren

#age #ages #anything #believe #clothes

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#mothers-and-daughters #education

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. ↗

— Virginia Madsen

#both #danish #father #genes #good

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#affected #am #best #best friend #child

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother. ↗

— Peter Malkin

#even #jewish #lie #mother #secret

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#father #guess #i #irish #me

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#rhyming #veins #wits

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#always #books #educated #father #grown

My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow. ↗

— Julian Castro

#before #believed #beyond #circumstances #created