#mother

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby? ↗

— Haniel Long

#baby #back #better #cannot #change

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#affected #am #best #best friend #child

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#father #guess #i #irish #me

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#family #father #mother #schoolteacher #teacher

But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck. ↗

— Shemar Moore

#ball #because #drafted #get #going

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#i think #mother #once #them #think

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#acting #classes #connected #did #dramatic

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#known #life #motherhood #my life #only

I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#bit #breast cancer #cancer #daily #door

My mother has battled breast cancer three times. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#cancer #mother #three #times