#mother

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#best #confirmation #first #get #gift

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#choose #did #him #his #khomeini

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain. ↗

— Sarah Brightman

#am #guess #house #i #i am

I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends. ↗

— Douglas Feaver

#both #ends #i #leak #love

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#called #father #found #had #him

I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too. ↗

— Timothy F. Cahill

#arm #brothers #dying #family #father

We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children. ↗

— Pat Brown

#children #could #her #how #kill

My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I've got too much to do now. I'm only 27. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#got #i #love #models #mother

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#appealing #approach #dear #dissolution #endeavouring

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#becomes #children #connection #dying #hypocrisy