#moth

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#commercialism #could #extravagance #fitted #illness

My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother. ↗

— Geoffrey Wilkinson

#brother #came #chemistry #early #early age

It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all. ↗

— Prince William

#around #because #close #engagement #excitement

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother. ↗

— Prince William

#growing #growing up #i #learned #mess

I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother. ↗

— Prince William

#grandmother #having #healthy #i #i always

I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear. ↗

— Prince William

#autograph #buy #come #good #good place

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room. ↗

— Mary Lou Williams

#been #by the time #four #i #i can

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme. ↗

— Saul Williams

#i #mother #preacher #rhyme #teacher

Education is the mother of leadership. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#leadership #mother

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends