Mother Quotes
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce
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There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.
Edwidge Danticat
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'Was your mother furious?''She’ll get over it,' Stanton said. 'Perhaps not in this lifetime, but I happen to believe in reincarnation, so there’s still hope.'
M. K. Hobson
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The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.
Edward Steichen
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I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.
Paz de la Huerta
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My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.
Leila Aboulela
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I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
Alfred M. Gray
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I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.
Ann Hood
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I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.
Jennifer Gilmore
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I'm part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibility for the one who remains - in my case, my mother. How do I make her time smoother, happier? How do I try to ease her, a widow, away from the dark well of grief without dishonoring the necessity of that grief?
Patti Davis
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I really feel that I've carried on my mother's legacy.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
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Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.
Christina Aguilera
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You can't be the perfect member of Congress and the perfect mother 100 percent of the time. And probably, you'd be a pretty annoying person if you were.
Linda Sanchez
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My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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It's about maintaining balance. Plan better, be organised. I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?
Chanda Kochhar
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I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.
Jayne Meadows
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The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others.
Dalai Lama
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I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
