#mother

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#glory #motherhood #pay #price

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#book #english #english teacher #going #had

My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.' ↗

— Donald Freed

#mother #path #peace #say #used

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#parents-and-children #motherhood

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. ↗

— George III

#bringing #colonies #country #due #left

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. ↗

— Hermione Gingold

#dealt #father #had #hands #her

You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#any #best #chef #day #far

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it. ↗

— Joseph Greenberg

#came #could #family #father #heard

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#businesswoman #children #chip #common #common sense

I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#been #being #came #ended #eye