“I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that.” MindBelieveI CanWould BeRunningRememberMotherHouseSoundWifeSickShoesTalesMind ControlOld Wives Tales Author:Eileen Davidson
“It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.” IfsChildrenTwoHomeMotherDadShoesDearPalacesOld Shoes Author:Louis Untermeyer
“The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.” PeopleThinkingFirstsMotherParentBecomingEmpathyShoesMotherhoodPrioritiesIntroducingSelflessnessStorytellerAmazing ThingsBeing A MotherSlugsBecoming A Parent Author:Olivia Wilde
“I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt... It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet.” MadeMotherHurtFeetBlameFaultsShoesPairsPrada Author:Meryl Streep
“We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him, begging him to teach ushow to do whatever is masculine, to throw balls or be in the woods or go see where he works. . . . We want our fathers to protect us from coming too completely under the control of our mothers. . . . We want to be seen with Dad, hanging out with men and doing men things.” MenWantTryingLongMotherFatherTeachDadProtectClothesBallsShoesWoodsHanging OutMasculineOur FatherBeggingDoing Me Author:Frank Pittman
“it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible” LoveWantedMotherGirlImpossibleShoesOddBergmanImpossible Love Author:Gregory Corso