Mother Quotes
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If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.
William S. Burroughs
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My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.
Allison Pearson
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There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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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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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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
Doris Lessing
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My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
Denis Leary
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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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The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.
Paul Auster
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I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.
Carre Otis
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I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.
Michael Angarano
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Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.
Maureen Dowd
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Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.
Erma Bombeck
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Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.
Erma Bombeck
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With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.
Graham Coxon Blur
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Mother Mary and the Christ energy hold a new profile on the Earth plane right now, and they will be there in the seminar in their new profile for this new phase we're entering into. They will walk among us and be much more available to individuals at this time on the Earth plane. They will be accessible in a very different way to support us in this transition on a very intimate and individual basis.
Christine McCormick Day
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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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Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back.
Camille
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I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.
Chris Rock
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My mother got down sick in 53 and she lived with me, an invalid, until she passed away in 1961. And during the time she was staying with me sometime I would be worked so hard I couldn't sleep at night.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
Toussaint Louverture
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In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.
Margaret Heffernan
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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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In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.
Evo Morales