#mother

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#long #married #me #mother #roof

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#brother #different #different world #europe #first

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#done #ever #i #life #meaningful

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#family #love #mothers #family

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. ↗

— Will Durant

#less #memory #mothers #penetrates #reasoning

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#after #arts #civilizations #gift #gifts

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. ↗

— Alice Walker

#flawed #gift #greatest #greatest gift #hidden

People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#always #ask #because #fun #i

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#birth #brother #caused #certain #elder

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #call #cup #dear #desire