#mother

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#certain #certain ways #children #dictates #even

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly. ↗

— Aaron Neville

#growing #growing up #house #mother #nat

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#achieve #courage #dreams #i #lacked

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#andy #broadway #bros #cream #funk

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws. ↗

— Joachim du Bellay

#france #laws #mother #warfare

My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often. ↗

— Emo Philips

#me #mother #often #only #quite

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried. ↗

— Eleanor Porter

#being #could #day #get #getting

I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding. ↗

— Flavius Josephus

#both #brother #brought #father #great

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#him #i #know #little #little brother

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#grandfather #grandmother #her #quartet #sisters