Mother Quotes
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My mother was a passionate, complicated, sometimes fierce woman.
Christina Baker Kline
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My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.
Ralph Stanley
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Most models are emotionally abandoned. They need me. I'm their mother.
Eileen Ford
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The liver signifieth the element of water, and it is also the water; for from the liver cometh the blood in the whole body into all the members. The liver is the mother of the blood.
Jakob Bohme
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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
David McCullough
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My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
Andre Dubus III
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Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.
Kristin Hannah
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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
Johann Georg Hamann
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In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.
Mariella Frostrup
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Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I all worked for him, and he treated us just beautifully, almost like a father. When I went with my mother up to his office, he was always gentlemanly and kindly. He was sort of a quiet person.
Doris Eaton Travis
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I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.
Kevin Hart
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Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother, caretaker, and in some cases, doctors, heads of organizations and things like that. For some people, I'm finally old enough to play those roles. We see men playing them when they're a little bit younger, and also in roles that call for some form of conflict and violence, either generating it or trying to curtail it. Women don't seem to be a big part of those common and often used movie themes.
Barbara Crampton
