#moth

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#art #mother #nabokov #paint #painter

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. ↗

— Sophocles

#becomes #educates #evil #mother #things

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #clear #enumerate #equal #even

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life. ↗

— Faye Dunaway

#destiny #different #entire #entire life #farmer

My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom. ↗

— Andrew Rannells

#mom #mother #predominately #stay-at-home #stay-at-home mom

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather. ↗

— Dan Rather

#big #came #country #entire #entire country

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#floor #honeymoon #mother #night #spent

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations. ↗

— Della Reese

#conversations #friend #god #had #mother

The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever. ↗

— Della Reese

#because #change #did #ever #exercise

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#indian #man #mother #religious #religious man