#moth

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#arms #children #made #mother #sleep

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#every #man #mother-in-law #proud #successful

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#daughter #early #eight #especially #go

It's very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it's also good for her. But it's definitely good for me. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#definitely #good #healing #her #hope

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy. ↗

— Tab Hunter

#confronted #crazy #denial #did #go

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her. ↗

— John Hurt

#anyone #drank #drinks #father #fear

India is my motherland. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#motherland

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 mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #communism #convent #converted #during

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