#moth

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt. ↗

— Hope Davis

#downstairs #drop #everything #his #iron

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#i #known #life #like #makes

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood. ↗

— Marc Davis

#car #died #down #father #got

I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on. ↗

— Patti Davis

#could #every #every step #experience #family

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. ↗

— John Dewey

#habitat #home #man #mother #nature

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#grandmother #her #ii #life #me

My mother is a walking miracle. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#miracle #mother #walking

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#around #brown #eyes #find #flower

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#bank #best #come #families #forget

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra. ↗

— Angie Dickinson

#actress #against #being #frank #frank sinatra