Mother Quotes
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'Course numb is an old hat, old as my oldest memories.See that one's my mother, and that one's my father, and that one in the hat, that's me.It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon, when I got out on the open road,But any more pent up emotion and I think I'm gonna explode.
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
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Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.
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I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
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My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.
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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
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A young girl's mother is her natural refuge in every perplexity.
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The ridicule is pressure to consider ourselves less important than someone even more precious: A baby is more precious than a mother; a woman is more precious than a man.
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The moment I realized God existed, I knew that I could not do othewise than to live for Him Alone...Faith strips the mask from the world and renders meaningless such words as anxiety, danger and fear, so the believer goes through life calmly and peacefully, with profound joy--like a child, hand and hand with his mother.
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I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.
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I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. Theyve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.
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I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for some years head of pediatrics at Provident, the nation's oldest black hospital. My mother was a social worker who left her job when she married, and throughout my childhood, she was a full-time wife, mother, and socialite.
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My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.
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It is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.
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I'm a working mother... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure.
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Mother Nature just gave me the ultimate physique.
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The Capitol serves as a beacon of American liberty, freedom and democracy, and Rosa Parks served as the mother of the America we grew to be.
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I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.
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I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.
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My mother would write letters when I was away at camp and say, 'There's an Ann-shaped space around the house. Nobody fills an Ann-shaped space except an Ann.' I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.
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That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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I had an emerald ring that my mother gave me four or five years before she died. She wore it always, I wore it always, and I have given it to my daughter, and she wears it always. This ring belonged originally to my great, great grandfather. It's well over 150 years old.
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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My mother is a hardcore actor's actor. She's not a celebrity. She really isn't... And so her main concern was that I not fall into the auditioning-is-my-life syndrome.
