Mother Quotes
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My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the eight dollars a month.
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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.
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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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I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
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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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One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm so fat,'or 'I'm so ugly. I need to go on a diet.' Projecting that onto yourself is only going to make your daughter or son think that of themselves. Because they're a product of you.
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My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.
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As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. I was despised by the children at school because I looked like I was going to an opening every day. We weren't wealthy at all; we lived in a row house in Philadelphia.
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My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.
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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.
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I am a Hitchcockian - I still believe that 'Psycho' sets the standard for mother/son relations.
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I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules.
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I left, but not before I kissed your mother eight times on the lips. That’s what we do, and amid all this uncertainty and lack of normalcy, I think it’s important to maintain our standards.
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No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.
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My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.
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If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side.
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You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.
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Looking back, I don't feel that I was the most brilliant mother. I was always very good at giving my children the right food, but it was one of my regrets in life that I didn't spend more time listening to them or playing with them.
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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
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My mother's brother became the undersecretary of the interior for Nixon, which did cause a little drama in my family because I was going to riots and everything, but he turned out great and gave us a nice cheque for an AIDS benefit we had for the 'Serial Mom' premiere.
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I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.
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The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.
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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.
