#mother

Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#alcohol #back #days #deal #difficult

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. ↗

— Voltaire

#astronomy #daughter #daughters #dominated #earth

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ↗

— Alice Walker

#found #garden #i #mother #my own

We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games. ↗

— Jack Wagner

#channels #computers #games #generation #grandmothers

For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#any #been #best #bland #chemotherapy

Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#country #devil #god #handle #her

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. ↗

— Alice Walker

#how #know #me #mothers #must

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. ↗

— Alice Walker

#against #coconut #collapsing #defending #father

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. ↗

— Alice Walker

#black #despair #enough #entirely #essential

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#film star #huge #international #intimidating #more