#mother

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#dogs #hope #i #juice #mothers

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill. ↗

— Ivana Trump

#because #bill #even #everything #fees

I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends. ↗

— Ivanka Trump

#both #dismay #father #great #great love

I was a teenage godmother. ↗

— Theresa May

#i #teenage

Ignorance is the mother of all evils. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#ignorance #mother

I was a mother's boy. ↗

— Don Rickles

#i #mother

Mother (fragment) ...You asked me if I would be sad when it happened and I am sad. But the iris I moved from your house now hold in the dusty dry fists of their roots green knives and forks as if waiting for dinner, as if spring were a feast. I thank you for that. Were it not for the way you taught me to look at the world, to see the life at play in everything, I would have to be lonely forever. ↗

— Ted Kooser

#mothers-and-daughters #nature #poetry #life

He was looking forward eagerly to seeing her again. He had coped perfectly well on his own, of course, but it was very reassuring to have someone in your life who was always ready to fight for you, and he had missed that comforting feeling, ↗

— Ken Follett

#life

Memory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life. ↗

— Fern Schumer Chapman

#memoir #memory #mother #life

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#motherhood #parenting #parenting