#moth

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#family #father #mother #schoolteacher #teacher

I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#believe #commandment #father #feel #good

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#between #black #caught #communities #could

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#calmer #father #highly #mother #much

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#enormous #fact #formidable #grandmother #huge

He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#been #bob #california #clothes #designing

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#boston #childless #couple #elderly #father

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#feminist #her #interestingly #mind #mother

But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck. ↗

— Shemar Moore

#ball #because #drafted #get #going

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. ↗

— Christian Morgenstern

#choose #first #first principle #good #good mother