#mother

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#beyond #child #children #come #grandmother

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#beyond #blurred #cannot #father #go

To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I've got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she's a lovely mare. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#breed #children #days #four #got

We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#again #amazing #because #butler #character

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#against #back #define #does #every

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#did #expect #happy #how #i

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.' ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#always #approve #become #did #father

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#especially #influence #me #mother #parents

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#enter #every #land #like #moses

Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#average #babies #because #been #discovered