Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.Rita Mae Brown
Quotes to Explore
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Patricia Kaas -
Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
Barry Humphries -
Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
Natalie Dormer -
My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
Jack Bowman -
I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
Mandy Moore
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
Ursula Burns -
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
J. B. Priestley -
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
Nana Mouskouri -
Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Isaac D'Israeli -
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
Kamala Harris
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
Quincy Jones -
If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
E. W. Howe -
I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
Natalie Gulbis -
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
Rachel Stevens -
My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
Laura Prepon -
In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
Gabrielle Union
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My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.
Ed Weeks -
I did The 'Acid Test' at the Royal Court, by Anya Reiss, who's the most wonderful, amazing female writer. She was only 19 when she wrote it. She wrote it about three girls in a flat on a Friday night, and that was magic because it was so rare to have three girls in your age group in a play. It just doesn't happen.
Vanessa Kirby -
For sentimental reasons, she wanted the front license plate and the steering wheel to make a clock with.
Paul Williams The Temptations -
I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
Caitlyn Jenner -
If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen -
Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.
Rita Mae Brown