#mother

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong. ↗

— Regina King

#know #mom #most #mother #single

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#condition #liability #longer #mother #pre-existing

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish! ↗

— John Sununu

#boy #chew #i #learned #lot

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#children #god #hearts #lips #little

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference. ↗

— Marc Morial

#contribution #difference #equality #freedom #greatest

I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#anything #been #being #follow #good

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#mother #much #pretty #time

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household. ↗

— Georg Solti

#abundant #after #anything #besides #continue

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#celebrity #clothes #collector #designed #hands

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. ↗

— Sissy Spacek

#appeals #before #dozen #dwarfed #else