#mother

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#being #character #count #enriched #future

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons. ↗

— John Legend

#could #family #four #i #know

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work. ↗

— John Garamendi

#comes #mother #mother nature #nature #reality

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. ↗

— Hermione Gingold

#dealt #father #had #hands #her

You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#any #best #chef #day #far

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it. ↗

— Joseph Greenberg

#came #could #family #father #heard

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#enough #father #god #good #good mother

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#came #experience #flowed #had #i

..."the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train... ↗

— Edward St. Aubyn

#death

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#choir #church #college #home #i