Mother Quotes
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
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I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.
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My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.
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I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
