#moth

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#bill #children #debt #father #forward

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#birth #brushes #death #may #moth

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#bad #bad taste #bathtub #books #emblem

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work. ↗

— John Garamendi

#comes #mother #mother nature #nature #reality

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. ↗

— George III

#bringing #colonies #country #due #left

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield. ↗

— Melissa Gilbert

#daughter #examples #four #frustrations #god

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. ↗

— Hermione Gingold

#dealt #father #had #hands #her

You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#any #best #chef #day #far

I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#am #driver #drunk #i #i am

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it. ↗