#mother

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#better off #born #came #country #despised

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner. ↗

— Halle Berry

#good #good loser #i #kid #loser

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#age #child #communicable #diseases #mother

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived. ↗

— Halle Berry

#how #i #identify #matter #me

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#child #chilly #feeling #garment #mother

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#combine #mother #must #politician #role

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#child #chopin #dame #elizabeth #her

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#away #behind #block #boulevard #followed

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#independent #lady #me #meant #mother

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#broccoli #eat #going #haven #i