#moth

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#another #award #gives #god #i

I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#children #classes #come #creative #dramatic

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. ↗

— George Weinberg

#benefit #columbia #could #course #educated

It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#because #children #country #france #italy

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there? ↗

— Spencer W. Kimball

#forgiveness

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS. ↗

— Ryan White

#aids #december #doctors #due #had

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#life

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. ↗

— Rebecca West

#being #horse #like #motherhood #own

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#being #comes #crusade #first #husband

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive. ↗

— Wayne Wonder

#be careful #careful #friends #go #grandmother