#mother

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition. ↗

— Leeza Gibbons

#condition #could #i #middle #mother

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#ancient #ancient rome #bridge #could #eleven

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#after #beautiful #daughters #far #habits

My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs. ↗

— Colin Hay

#heavily #lot #mother #quite #songs

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me. ↗

— Anne Heche

#been #father #had #hung #i

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#father #good #good sense #lack #may

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#am #her #i #i am #me

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.' ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#hope #i #little #little girls #look

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#dance #dancing #fools #grandmother #had

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#affection #been #caught #class #considered