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		It was always my dream to be a dress designer, and my mother accepted that decision.
	
	  Hubert de Givenchy Hubert de Givenchy
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		My parents played by parents, in the second season of Suits. We had a Skype scene and they were my real parents. My parents are cartoons. When they come up and visit, they're hilarious. My mother somehow finds a way to get in the way of everything.
	
	  Rick Hoffman Rick Hoffman
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		We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?
	
	  Mother Teresa Mother Teresa
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		I just feel so blessed to have had the time that I had with my mother. She made it so impactful in terms of how she raised me and my little brother, the values that she instilled in us, the way she inspired us, and how she lived her everyday life.
	
	  Kimberly Guilfoyle Kimberly Guilfoyle
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		The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
	
	  Shirley Chisholm Shirley Chisholm
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		All sorts of efforts were made to populate the Floridas—with anyone: Huguenots, Bermudians, Irish, Germans, Swiss, Scottish Highlanders, even some of the prostitutes being rehabilitated in London’s Magdalen House. Sir Alexander Grant, who dreamed up the idea of transporting the prostitutes to Florida, confessed, with not exactly stunning insight, “Tis true they are not virgins”; nevertheless, he said, they would surely make splendid wives and mothers for such as were likely to live in a place like Florida.
	
	  Bernard Bailyn Bernard Bailyn
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		Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.
	
	  D. H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence
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		One of my clearest, happiest memories is of myself at fourteen, sitting up in bed, being handed a large glass of warm buttermilk by my mother because I had a sore throat, and she saying how envious she was that I was reading 'The Catcher in the Rye' for the first time.
	
	  David Shields David Shields
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		God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
	
	  Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi
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		I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
	
	  Max von Sydow Max von Sydow
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		Home again, and full of the thousand cares that follow the summer and precede the winter. But let mothers and wives fret as they will, they enjoy these labours of love, and would feel lost without them. For what amount of leisure, ease, and comfort, would I exchange husband and children and this busy home?
	
	  Elizabeth Prentiss Elizabeth Prentiss
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		My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
	
	  Margot Robbie Margot Robbie