#mother

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#children #god #hearts #lips #little

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

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

— Emo Philips

#me #mother #often #only #quite

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

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course. ↗

— Colin Hay

#coast #course #drums #father #guitars

A boy's best friend is his mother. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#best friend #boy #friend #his #mother

It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place you lived in. The woman priest with jogging clothes and a BlackBerry gave Mary a glimpse of what life must have been like for her mother as she grew older. ↗

— John Lanchester

#mother #old #stranger #age

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. ↗

— Rita Wilson

#american #born #father #greek #hollywood