Mother Quotes
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Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.
Ella Baker
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I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother?
Alexis Stewart
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I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.
John Prescott
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I am a mother and I have been divorced, and I love fashion and the Upper East Side.
Kelly Rutherford
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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.
Lindsey Haun
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I was afraid that I would find out that I didn't work hard, that I wasn't a very good mother. I was feeling so inadequate in everything I did. I was afraid that I was going to come out being this crazy, disorganized, neurotic person. So it was revelatory that I worked more than 50 hours a week and I still spent a tonne of time with my kids. It was like, "Why do I feel one way when the reality is so different?"
Brigid Schulte
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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
William Dean Howells
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Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.
Carrie Fisher
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My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make.
Jose Antonio Vargas
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You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
Joely Richardson
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I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.
Kelly Ayotte
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Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
Elizabeth Moon
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.
Charles Dickens
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I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.
Maya Rudolph
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Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.
James Anthony Froude
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My mother and I always had full adult communication.
Erin Gray
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A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'
Daniel Goleman
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When I lost my father, I thought I learned about grief and transition. However, nobody tells you what it's like to lose your mother. They don't tell you that you're going to feel like an orphan at whatever age you are as an adult.
Sandra Cisneros
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That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.
Nicholas Sparks
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I'm like your mother, your sister, whatever.
Carol Burnett
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I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
Marianne Faithfull
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Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.
Norman Douglas