Mother Quotes
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My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.
Andrae Crouch
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Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.
Eamon Dunphy
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My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.
Pierce Brosnan
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My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
Jose Manuel Barroso
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I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I'm sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn't go out, or I wasn't invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better.
Jean Nidetch
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I wear a bracelet bearing the name of a fallen hero, Matthew Stanley, which his mother, Lynn, gave me in 2007, at a town hall meeting in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. His memory and the memory of our great leaders deserve better from me.
John McCain
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My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings for me? Will you make a painting for me?' And it really clicked.
Kehinde Wiley
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Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I've learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you'd talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.
Brené Brown
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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.
Leila Aboulela
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When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights.
Kelly Hu
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There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began.
Daniel Levin Becker
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When you have a different mother, you want to be in her world. Because in mine, I didn't feel like I fit in.
Patty Smyth
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Penelope (the parrot) squawked, ‘I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!’ Mary was certainly surprised at that because she thought that she had made up that brilliant remark. She didn’t dare to look at her mother….
Betty MacDonald
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My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
Lincoln Steffens
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
