#moth

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#achievement #children #fail #highly #insist

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals. ↗

— Beatrice Lillie

#born #fourth #i #i was born #meals

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#always #followed #i #i remember #life

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#before #born #captain #earlier #father

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany. ↗

— Friedrich List

#children #crippled #fatherland #germany #i

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#children #express #gypsy #her #how

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible. ↗

— Alison Lohman

#challenges #daughter #each #face #go

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans. ↗

— Susan Lucci

#both #descent #different #different backgrounds #extremely

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#beatles #concerts #crazy #did #even

My mother would do anything for her children. And that's how I am too. ↗

— Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

#anything #children #her #how #i