#moth

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother. ↗

— Hesiod

#mother #our #sometimes #stepmother

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#elegance #excellent #fondness #had #his

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#caesar #chavez #created #democracy #down

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#cub #get #her #living #mother

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#father #hugging #i #i am #i do

If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat my own clothes. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#logical #mother #ranger #writers #funny

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#interesting #man #misery #mother #nobody

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#giving #having #mother #oneself #reckless

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.' ↗

— Tom Hooper

#australian #called #came #english #friends

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#affected #because #being #dad #father