Mother Quotes
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I bought a place in Milan, but Missoni headquarters are out in the country, in Sumirago. My whole family eats out of the same vegetable garden; my mother raises chickens. I love the city, but if you're always bombarded with stimulation, you get numb to it. I need to get bored to create.
Margherita Missoni
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I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.
Les Dawson
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I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
Jimmy Buffett
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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
Afrika Bambaataa
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My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'
Allison Pearson
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My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.
Sergio Leone
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One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.
Patty Duke
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My mom is the kind of mom, when we would go to a friend of the family's house, and they would offer us something to drink or offer us something to eat, my mother would always say, 'Tell them no.' You could be starving - you could be dehydrated - but as kids, we were supposed to tell the host, 'No.'
Jesmyn Ward
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My mother and her five sisters have always been living examples of the great love that can exist among sisters - and in a large family.
Elizabeth Berg
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I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.
Carol Shields
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I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.
Jeff Kinney
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I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.
Jane Pauley
