#mother

I never felt like I had a mother. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#had #i #like #mother #never

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#father #figure #five #had #hard

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#could #everywhere #god #made #mothers

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#mother #ounce #pound #worth

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#dammed #i #know #make #me

The public has become my fairy godmother. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#fairy #godmother #public

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#baby #come #feeling #gut #having

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#comes #everybody #give #given #gives

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#balancing #i #i am #mother #things

Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#born #century #emigrated #family #followed