#mother

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life. ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#believing #give #go #goals #i

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#able #begin #birth #child #consume

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched. ↗

— Paul Harris

#been #best #chords #motherhood #sympathy

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. ↗

— Amy Heckerling

#babies #baby #care #fathers #mothers

I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there. ↗

— Marg Helgenberger

#her #i #just #mother #slate

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ↗

— Theodore Hesburgh

#children #father #his #important #important thing

Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any idea how to fix. ↗

— Karen Abbott

#life

I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#believe #came #christ #complain #dad

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. ↗

— Black Elk

#children #circle #daylight #father #flowering

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#basically #decided #i #lot #me