Mother Quotes
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I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
Betty White
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
Cassiodorus
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Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
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Every mother wishes the best for her children.
Andrea Navedo
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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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I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'
Gwen Stefani No Doubt
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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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My mom, she was, at a young age, caught up in the worldly ways. At that time, it was very intriguing to be out partying and having fun. As a young mother, she was caught in that.
Amar'e Stoudemire
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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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It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.
Dalia Grybauskaite
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My father just believed in my mother's ability to do anything.
Yance Ford
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But I don’t think I’ve ever known such a natural at Potions!” said Slughorn. “Instinctive, you know — like his mother! I’ve only ever taught a few with this kind of ability, I can tell you that, Sybill — why even Severus —” And to Harry’s horror, Slughorn threw out an arm and seemed to scoop Snape out of thin air toward them.
Joanne Rowling
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I value so many people who have to work full time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud it so much. I absolutely love being a mother. I love his milestones. I love his smile. I love that he's talking and making sentences and telling me he loves me. It's amazing.
Molly Sims
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The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
Meghan O'Rourke
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I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.
Kim Raver
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You're grown - crooked and backbent, but grown - and it's time to stop hanging your heart on your mother.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.
Sandra Bullock
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My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother would have said, 'You have to get a real job.' I don't know because I didn't have that experience. My fortes in school were Spanish, sports, reading and theater. That's what they encouraged.
Joie Lee
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My mother, whose interest in chemistry was rather minimal, nevertheless went to graduate school in the subject and married my father, for whom it was as important as life itself.
George Akerlof
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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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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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I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.
William Shakespeare
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My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
Marian Keyes