Mother Quotes
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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.
George Bernard Shaw
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On women's role in the home. Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
Honore de Balzac
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Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world." And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. "Daddy likes you," she said.
William Goldman
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To know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
Elizabeth Goudge
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But I would adore that thief who is my mother.
Jean Genet
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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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What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.
Rashid Johnson
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Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.
Jim Gaffigan
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After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.
Lynn Johnston
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When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?
Susan Estrich
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the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.
Cathy Davidson
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I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.
Eva Zeisel
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My mother would make a good Wonder Woman.
Brian Azzarello
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Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness.
Mother Teresa
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Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.
Genie Francis
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I slept again but only for a few minutes. Then I fell into a torpor crowded with images, in which, without wanting to, I began to tell myself about my mother.
Elena Ferrante
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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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My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.
Tiger Woods
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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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A mother loves her children unconditionally. However they wrong her, she'll carry on loving them.
Alaa Al Aswany
