Mother Quotes
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It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it.
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I can easily tap into the feeling of being a mother and the feeling of, you always want what's best for your kids. And that's where most parents come from.
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My greatest influence has and always will be my mother. I admire her strength, fearlessness, and optimism.
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Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
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The 'My Mother the Car' script read like Neil Simon compared to the 'Gilligan's Island' script.
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A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.
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My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.
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My education was seeing and touching the world. I would read about the history of a castle with my mother - who was a teacher, so she home-schooled me - and then she would take me to the castle, and we would climb on it, and then I'd write creatively about it that night.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.
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My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.
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When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.
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You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.
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The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
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When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.
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After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.
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Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite
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I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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I remember getting notified that I won an award, and I gloated up a storm to my mother, and I was so obnoxious about it, but I said to her, 'Momma, I'm going to enjoy every moment of this because tomorrow, something bad is going to happen.'
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I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes everything - your mother, your father, your everything. You are dependent on the church.
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In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.
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I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.
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Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.
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I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.
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Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?
