#moth

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#conqueror #favorite #feeling #his #indisputable

It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place you lived in. The woman priest with jogging clothes and a BlackBerry gave Mary a glimpse of what life must have been like for her mother as she grew older. ↗

— John Lanchester

#mother #old #stranger #age

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted. ↗

— Debra Messing

#defining #event #felt #life #like

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. ↗

— Henry Cantwell Wallace

#cities #forget #hundred #indefinitely #long

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. ↗

— Rita Wilson

#american #born #father #greek #hollywood

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#feminism #hate #love #marriage #married-life

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#becoming #big #father #felt #giving

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#got #her #i #librarian #me

We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland. ↗

— Ziaur Rahman

#free #last #motherland #our #shall

The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me. ↗

— Todd Bridges

#factory #get #grandmother #green #had