#mothers

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #away #beginning #believe #came

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#down #getting #grandmothers #i #mothers

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. ↗

— Alice Walker

#how #know #me #mothers #must

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life. ↗

— Shaun White

#call #date #daughters #e-mails #get

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

If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at the same time, being mindful that these choices will not only effect you, but will also infect, sorry, I intended to say effect, our entire family. ↗

— Donna K. Childree

#adoption-search #dysfunction #dysfunctional-families #family-relationships #mothers

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#exercise #family #grandmothers #grandparents #humor

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#people

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#love #men #mothers #respect #their

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#become #children #delinquent #fatherless #fathers