Mother Quotes
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The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true.
Sarah Dessen
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A young girl's mother is her natural refuge in every perplexity.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!
Cassandra Wilson
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No one calls me Belcalis except for my family, my mother, and my daddy.
Cardi B
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She came naturally by her confused and groundless fears, for her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
James Thurber
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With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
Marge Piercy
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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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I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.
Sebastian Arcelus
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My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
Eudora Welty
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As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.
Darcey Steinke
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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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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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Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos.
Alice Randall
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Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.
Hermann Hesse
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I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.
Etta James
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
Billy Connolly
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My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life.
Stephane Hessel
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Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
