#mother

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#fears #hour #joys #life #long

A mother who is really a mother is never free. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#free #mother #never #really #who

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#his #i #jim #liked #mother

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#birth certificate #cents #certificate #extra #fifty

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#converts #different #different parts #early #father

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family. ↗

— Steven Adler

#being #family #god #grandmother #i

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife. ↗

— Kim Alexis

#early #going #going home #happy #home

Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ↗

— Aeschylus

#memory #mother

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. ↗