Sophocles Quotes
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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
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We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.
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I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
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My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.
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Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
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For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.
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In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.
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It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
