#mother

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college. ↗

— Dana Hill

#brothers #career #college #ever #go

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before. ↗

— Julie Walters

#another #before #being #children #dimension

Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating. ↗

— Thora Hird

#emigrating #go #good #got #i

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#feature #mother #new #new baby #singing

I prayed for my heart to soften, to forgive her, and love her for what she did give me--life, great values, a lot of tennis lessons, and the best she could do. Unfortunately, the best she could do was terrible, thee the Minister of Silly Walks trying to raise an extremely sensitive young girl, and my heart remained hardened toward her. [p. 46] ↗

— Anne Lamott

#faith

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#destroy #done #foul #good #grandmother

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?' ↗

— LeBron James

#am #around #deeper #did #father

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother. ↗

— Calamity Jane

#became #father #girl #i #image

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#mother #mother tongue #syllables #those #tongue

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ↗

— James Joyce

#else #love #love is #mother #stinking