Mother Quotes
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Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career.
Christina Aguilera
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Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.
Shonda Rhimes
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My mother worked on a whole bunch of those; she worked on What's My Line?, I've Got A Secret, Play Your Hunch... In my memory, she worked on To Tell The Truth. So it was her job to brief the imposters.
Cynthia Nixon
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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
Anita Diamant
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When my mother was young, only two professions were open to women ; teaching and nursing. She chose nursing, but the teaching profession was full of talented women like her, confined there in part because they had few career options.
Bruce Rauner
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For breakfast, I usually have a slice of bread with some homemade jam made from fruit from the garden; the type of jam depends on what particular fruit is being harvested. I learned how to make it from my mother.
Dries van Noten
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Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.
Amnat Ruenroeng
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No election is ever just about one issue, but I care a lot about women's rights and making sure parents have what they need to raise healthy kids. I always have cared, but having just had a child, I know how serious it is to be a mother. It's an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources.
Chrissy Teigen
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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.
Pramila Jayapal
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Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.
Annie Baker
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I see my own mother now, as clearly as I had the day she watched me leave. She should have fought for me, protected me with her life.
Pam Jenoff
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If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant’s reasoning to the grown man’s passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.
Denis Diderot
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Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
Erma Bombeck
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My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.
Vandana Shiva
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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
Marian Wright Edelman
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My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.
Constance Marie
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My mother started me on the piano when I was 3 years old.
Kristian Nairn
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There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?
Dean Koontz
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I have a lot of my mother in me, but I was just born with the same parts as my father. I don't sound like him. I mean, I can do an impression of him right now, and I do not sound like him. I sound like me. My sense of rhythm I learned from my mother. My melodies, I think sometimes, I get from my mother.
Jeff Buckley
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It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of nurturance known as The Goddess, so revered in ancient times and being rediscovered by women today.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.
Helen McCrory
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There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.
Alphonsus Liguori