#mother

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.' ↗

— Tom Hooper

#australian #called #came #english #friends

Night is the mother of counsels. ↗

— George Herbert

#mother #night

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#died #eyes #father #filtered #her

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#exercise #family #grandmothers #grandparents #humor

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#people

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#father #influence #mother #nomadic #person

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#different #grandmother #her #invention #law

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. ↗

— Mary Antin

#growth #longer #mothers #our #ourselves

I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#commercials #consonants #doing #food #had

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#i #left #make #me #mother