#moth

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#behind #blessed #both #good #him

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#britain #canada #canadians #fervently #generation

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. ↗

— John Major

#conceived #father #i #late #mother

My mother was the center of the family. ↗

— John Major

#family #mother

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids. ↗

— Dorothy Malone

#doing #girl #hollywood #i #kids

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead. ↗

— David Mamet

#calling #dead #everybody #more #morning

I punched my mother out once. ↗

— Charles Manson

#mother #once #out #punched

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#am #bones #even #fantasies #feel

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#father #mother #romania #russia

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#does #exist #him #i #married