#moth

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#brother #final #francisco #high #high school

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there. ↗

— Kitty Carlisle

#came #den #ends #hollywood #iniquity

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. ↗

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

#comfort #comforter #does #feel #great

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late. ↗

— Hoagy Carmichael

#after #i #know #late #man

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight. ↗

— Billy Carter

#into #mother #peace #peace corps #she

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one. ↗

— Julian Castro

#barely #better #brother #chance #child

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#come #did #fault #had #how

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#always #been #down #heads #heads down

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general. ↗

— Jung Chang

#became #fifteen #general #grandmother

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#adopted #again #aunt #because #being