My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After h...
...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is the right amount, what is too much, and the kind that makes you want more of what is bad for you. A mother helps her baby flex her first ...
What you call your life is not yours at all--not yours to plan, manipulate, or control, at least not very often. . . . In fleeting moments of deep satisfaction and insight, I saw the absolute truth of life: the unbroken line of love that had led to m...
Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me?” I ask. “We thought he might,” my mother says. “Why didn’t you stop him?” “We didn’t want to take away your choices,” my mother says. “But Grandfather never did tell me about th...
[last lines] [spoiler] Alexander Kerner: [voiceover] My mother outlived the GDR by three days. I believe it was a good thing she never learned the truth. She died happy. She wanted us to scatter her ashes to the winds. That's prohibited in Germany, b...
In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.
She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.
I'm extremely close to my mother.
Time is the mother of all infinities.
The world needs our mothers.
Food simply isn't important to me.
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
I was good at keeping my mother from crying.
My mother was the love of my life.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.
All mothers are slightly insane.
Smile more to attract more.
When you have to work, work with a smile.
Children learn to smile from their parents.
