Mother Quotes
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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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You have people like Sarah Jessica Parker - and it's also because of her mother and where she came from and all that stuff - but how you're taught to be responsible for yourself rather than endlessly people waiting for you and bringing you things.
Cynthia Nixon
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A grandchild barely able to remember Harry's own mother But can Ma be no more than that in this child's memory? Do we dwindle so fast to next to nothing?
John Updike
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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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You just can't know the feeling of being mother to a girl who you thought might die every single day - right up until the day she did.
Adele Griffin
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Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.
Gautama Buddha
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My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.
Joseph Bruchac
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The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.
Whitley Strieber
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In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.
Evo Morales
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Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.
Gertrud von Le Fort
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Her mother had left a note on the bathroom mirror, written in lipstick: just because my love isn't perfect doesn't mean I don't love you.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
Berthold Auerbach
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What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.
Mother Teresa
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There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.
Kim Cattrall
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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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A bad memory is the mother of invention.
Gerald Brenan
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My mother always said you could eat off her floor; you could eat of my floor too, there's so much food down there.
Elayne Boosler
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When I took my oath of office to serve as your Governor, remember, I swore to steadfastly and doggedly guard the interests of this great state like a grizzly with cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. Alaska, as a statewide family, we've got to fight for each other, not against and not let external, sensationalized distractions draw us off course. As an exciting year of unpredictable change begins, we, too, have our work cut out for us. And we're all in this together. Just like our musk ox, they circle up to protect their future when they are challenged. We've got to do the same.
Sarah Palin
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I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother!
Jennie Garth
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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
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My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
Denis Leary
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But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.
Marie Helvin
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My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother.
Martin Henderson