Mother Quotes
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When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
Black Elk
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I've said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know ... I do not believe she went to hell.
Barack Obama
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My mother was the love of my life.
Colman Domingo
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My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.
Jan Brewer
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The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever.
William Allingham
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My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.
Dwight Yoakam
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The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.
Patrick Ness
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My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
Arizona Muse
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We were called 'Three Men Who, When Standing Side by Side, Have a Wingspan of Over Twelve Feet.' We had that name for a week or so. We were also called 'Are You My Mother?' for awhile. We went through a lot of really dumb band names - almost as dumb as Fountains of Wayne.
Adam Schlesinger
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My mother is a Senior Casualty Claims Specialist I, which in layman's terms means the head insurance adjuster!
Ciara Renee
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Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.
David Rockefeller
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I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.
Amber Heard
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Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
Meg Wolitzer
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My dad was enlisted in the Navy; my mother was a nurse. It just was never a thought process. It was just go to the best school you can go to, do the best you possibly can do, and be the best person you can possibly be, and I think our faith had a lot to do with that.
David Robinson The Cars
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Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Lemuel K. Washburn
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As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!
John Sununu
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My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a career.
Ajay Mehta
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My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back.
Chic Murray
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I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.
Mike Tyson
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My father is from Jamaica, my mother is from the U.K., but I was adopted as an infant by a really wonderful family in Alberta, Canada. What we refer to as 'Texas of the North.'
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
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A boy's best friend is his mother.
Joseph Stefano
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I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me to, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction.
Mark Boone Junior
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I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.
Lemon Andersen
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I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.
Louise Fletcher