#mother

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#childhood #felt #hanging #head #hell

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#curiosity #debts #duty #family #father

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#children #civilisation #considered #crazy #family

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#early #education #four #get #harmony

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#anymore #depression #down #feel #function

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate. ↗

— Carre Otis

#am #daughter #friend #i #i am

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you. ↗

— Ouida

#good #hard #hard work #hungry #kiss

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 still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother - and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#always #beautiful #borrow #clothes #dressed

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb? ↗

— Trey Parker

#coat #heart #i #me #mother