#mother

It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man - the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated off-spring - you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one. I look at him and see the baby I held in my arms, dewing besotted, unable to believe that I'd created another human being. I see the toddler, reaching for my hand, the schoolboy weeping tears of fury after being bullied  by some other child. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history. ↗

— Jojo Moyes

#life

[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#love

And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#mothers-love #love

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood. ↗

— Misty May-Treanor

#future #goal #motherhood

The thing I miss most from home, is having a home. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#childhood-memories #family #father #home #homeless

Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. ↗

— Philippe Halsman

#asked #asking #before #camera #celebrated

Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#came #donna #event #father #group

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics. ↗

— Jared Harris

#catholic #catholics #children #deal #father

When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights. ↗

— Kelly Hu

#ears #fights #get #i #into

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#country #daughters #fathers #mothers #proudly