Mother Quotes
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It was always my dream to be a dress designer, and my mother accepted that decision.
Hubert de Givenchy
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
Billy Joel
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My mother was a beautiful lady, elegant, chic, and that was the biggest inspiration to me.
Hubert de Givenchy
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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.
Jared Harris
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It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography... I knew when I went into photography that I would be compared to my mother. I thought to myself, what can I do about that?
Amy Arbus
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Natural-born American means you don`t have to be naturalized. You were born to an American mother, like President Obama, no matter where you were born.
Chris Matthews
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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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Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!
Dan Castellaneta
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I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. She is resting comfortably and is with our family. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers.
Melissa Rivers
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[My mother] was taking me to Shakespeare In The Park when I was like 6. There was just a lot of theater-going and a lot of movie-going and a lot of discussion about it afterwards, dissecting it and stuff.
Cynthia Nixon
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Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.
Madame de La Fayette
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Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.
Mother Teresa
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When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.
Nomar Garciaparra
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Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.
Sandra Bullock
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My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
Harry Mathews
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I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way.
Annette Bening
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My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.
Allison Pearson
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One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.
Caroline Kennedy
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Every mother wishes the best for her children.
Andrea Navedo
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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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My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.
Lynn Johnston
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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
Anita Diamant
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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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When I read the 'Dick and Jane' stories, I thought they were afraid they might forget each other's names because they always said each other's names - a lot. So if Jane didn't see the dog, Dick would say, 'Look Jane, look. There is the dog next to Sally, Jane. The dog is also next to mother, Jane. The dog is next to father, Jane.'
Jon Scieszka