#mother

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#cup #measured #measuring #mother #only

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#back #box #boxes #business #cardboard

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#ever #got #i #items #mother

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#certainly #decreed #infinite #league #little

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#black sheep #definitely #discomfort #family #grandmother

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#back #black #brave #come #decided

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

#father #married #mom #mother #were

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#regular #tolerant #very

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#duty #family #father #first #involved

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image. ↗

— David Bowie

#astounded #i #i think #image #jagger