Mother Quotes
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To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it.
Eric Braeden
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To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.
Sara Willis
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My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.
Mary Gordon
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I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days
Linda Blair
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My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive.
Dom DeLuise
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Let us say I am something like a witch, and something like a jester, and something like a mother.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I am a proud mother.
Michelle Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
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My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.
Kehinde Wiley
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I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than just a fad or moment.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.
Elliot Ackerman
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In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful furniture, as well as raising the pair of us in a society dominated by men. There really is nothing like war to reveal the power of patriarchy, but she always retained her independence.
Alexandra Fuller
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Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
Camille Paglia
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
Edmund Burke
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When I was born, that was right smack in the middle of 'The Cosby Show.' But what I remember is my mother took me with her... She exposed me to the world in such a way where I was included. And I didn't feel like she chose her career over me.
Condola Rashad
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I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.
Christina Applegate
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My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
Lorna Luft
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The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.
Elinor Smith
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I have spent quite some time in Malaysia, as my mother is from there. And shooting there was a great experience.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.
Meghan O'Rourke
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
Francois Rabelais
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My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.
Laurence Yep
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My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.
James Ellroy
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My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.
Andy Rooney