I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent…

“Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Sometimes, when people get treated as less than human, the best way to help them feel better is to simply treat them as human.…

— Jason Reynolds

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

— James Weldon Johnson

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

— Alan King

My mother kept all my awards on the sideboard of her front room, and she polished them. She polished everything religiously. And it doesn't…

— Glenda Jackson

My mother has always kept the entire family together - my dad, due to his business, has always been travelling, and hence, she at…

— Karan Patel

I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she…

— Ving Rhames

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.

— Evander Holyfield

When my daughter went to school, her last name was mine. The school insisted that her father's name be added to hers, not her…

— Mahesh Manjrekar

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

— Julie Andrews

“Mrs. (Fanie Lou) Hamer, like her mother, also kept weapons nearby in case she needed them: 'I keep a shotgun in every corner of…

— Charles E. Cobb Jr

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

— John F. Kennedy Jr

“Baba was gone forever. My mother kept waiting for him until the day she died, just as she waited to return home, just as…

— Susan Abulhawa

My mother always kept us involved in various types of art.

— Dante Basco

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in…

— Teddy Pendergrass