Mother Quotes
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In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.
Lisa See
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When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.
Alicia Keys
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I do want to be a mother. I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me.
Elisabeth Moss
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My mother made me truly appreciate women.
Drake
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I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.
Duane Chapman
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I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother.
Angela Lindvall
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I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.
James Spader
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Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.
Mona Simpson
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I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations.
Carmen Cusack
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When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.
William Lipscomb
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My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.
Lauren Graham
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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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There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.
Loretta Swit
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My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother.
Kaya Scodelario
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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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My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.
Les Dawson
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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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Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place.
Christina Aguilera
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I live on the margin of just about everything. I'm a marginal person, and I think that is where I've become comfortable. I'm marginally there in my native life. I can do as much as I can, but I'm always German, too, you know, and I'm always a mother. That's my first identity, but I'm always a writer, too.
Louise Erdrich
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I've tried to live my life in a way that respects the beliefs of my mother and father. Everyone has blessings, gifts, passion, and drive.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
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My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.
Emilio Estevez
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All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.
Ken Venturi
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For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
Virginia Woolf