Mother Quotes
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My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.
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I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.
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My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.
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A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.
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Will Hilt to hand yet be restored? Take me up, thy mother's sword.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
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I do remember going shopping with my mother; I think the name of the store was Ruth Atkins. I don't know why I can remember that. It's probably because it's not the name.
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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.
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We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.
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Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.
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I don't like to talk about my personal life, so I will not talk about others. I don't give advice. I give advice to only my mother, father, and brother on health.
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If you ask me where do I belong, it would be somewhere in the Irish Sea almost - born in Hong Kong, Chinese mother, Portuguese father from Macao, lived in Europe most of my life.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.
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My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.
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No one calls me Belcalis except for my family, my mother, and my daddy.
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I'm not really afraid of somebody who's very politically vocal. My mother is very strong, and I really believe in freedom of speech.
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You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.
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Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?
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I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.
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Do without if you need to, but don't do without mother.
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My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
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My mother," he said, "has invited us to a ball." Elena pulled a blade from one of the butter-soft forearm sheaths that had been a gift from Raphael. "Excuse me while I stab myself in the eyes-and disembowel myself while I'm at it.
