#moth

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons. ↗

— John Legend

#could #family #four #i #know

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#all day #alone #already #behind #boring

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#been #being #better #godmother #grandmother

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#brother #deal #energy #frustrated #great

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do. ↗

— James Levine

#day #fathers #hour #kids #more

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#achievement #children #fail #highly #insist

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals. ↗

— Beatrice Lillie

#born #fourth #i #i was born #meals

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#always #followed #i #i remember #life

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#before #born #captain #earlier #father

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany. ↗

— Friedrich List

#children #crippled #fatherland #germany #i