Mother Quotes
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As a new mother, I want to give my children the best start in life but millions of children affected with AIDS don't live with such certainty. We can all do something to give them a future worth living for. We can make a difference in a child's life by joining with UNICEF to ensure that mothers and children are given the treatment that they deserve, in order to live a life free from HIV and AIDS.
 Claudia Schiffer
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I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.
 Buzz Aldrin
					 
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I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being played by a Scandinavian actress - because my son was completely crazy about 'Star Wars.'
 Lindsay Duncan
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Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer.
 Jami Attenberg
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My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.
 Stevie Wonder
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Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.
 Bei Dao
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I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.
 Jimmy Smits
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I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.
 Colin Angle
					 
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I have great childhood memories of my mother baking, and I was always a willing participant, especially if it meant I could revarnish the kitchen floor with treacle.
 James William Middleton
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One of the most beautiful experiences our family shared was feeling the love and bond that came to life when my mother was battling her ovarian cancer. In a way, it brought our family together and opened up relationships and a closeness that was not felt before her diagnosis.
 Yael Cohen
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My mother is always the most vulnerable person in any room, and so I definitely have that part of her inside me.
 Alice Ripley
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Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.
 Rita Mae Brown
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Becoming a mother has been the best thing ever for me. It's become my life's work. Not just parenting, but sharing information and encouraging other women to be receptive to the basic nature of motherhood.
 Anna Getty
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If my mother gets help from it, then I will enter politics.
 Rajiv Gandhi
					 
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Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.
 Little Richard
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What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult.
 Orson Scott Card
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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.
 Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
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I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.
 Ingrid Michaelson
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My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.
 Jai Rodriguez
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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
 Victor Hugo
					 
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When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.
 Amy Hempel
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When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.
 Jean Ingelow
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The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.
 H. L. Mencken
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In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.
 Barack Obama