#mother

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#book #english #english teacher #going #had

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. ↗

— George III

#bringing #colonies #country #due #left

I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#been #being #came #ended #eye

I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything. ↗

— Roma Downey

#balancing #bedtime #being #demands #i

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#being #central #child #i #i always

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#before #down #every #every night #greek

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#dare #mother #beauty

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#baseball #because #christian #doing #engaged

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#child #eyes #give #helped #i

The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#i #i see #more #mother #myself