#mother

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. ↗

— Will Durant

#less #memory #mothers #penetrates #reasoning

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#did #guy #her #i #mother

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#define #i #me #mother #much

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#after #arts #civilizations #gift #gifts

in all the years i had blundered along in search of my own footing, she had never given me an inkling of this wish. unburdened by the demands of history or anyone else's dreams, i had wandered toward and finally reached a world far outside the plains i loved and loathed. my mother had neither begrudged me this journey nor expected it, certain that i had to make my own way. but she packed my toolbox with her great wit and forbearance before i went, and she stashed there, for long safekeeping, her desire. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#dreams

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#consider #days #dump #good #good mother

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. ↗

— Alice Walker

#flawed #gift #greatest #greatest gift #hidden

After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#book #died #done #ever #everything

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#children #i #live #me #mother

People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#always #ask #because #fun #i