#mother

My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#born #grandmother #great #had #i

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#electrician #father #mining #mother #secretary

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother. ↗

— Hesiod

#mother #our #sometimes #stepmother

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#come #doing #eighties #even #even now

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#elegance #excellent #fondness #had #his

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#caesar #chavez #created #democracy #down

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#i #left #make #me #mother

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#financial #i #inspired #me #mother

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#compared #forgiving #her #kind #lot

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#cub #get #her #living #mother