Mother Quotes
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The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
Lao Tzu
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My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.
Michael Rispoli
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I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life - my father and mother are still in love, still happy.
Caterina Murino
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The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."
Rabindranath Tagore
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No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.
James Cook
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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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When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.
James McBride
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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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My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?'
Simon Callow
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My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.
Haley Reeves Barbour
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Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
William Cobbett
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My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.
Wendy C. Ortiz
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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 10 or 20 minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic; there is no adventure I would have traded them for.
Ariel Levy
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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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I always had a work ethic. And I think I very much got that from my father and my mother.
John Waters
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As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.
Vito Fossella
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My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us.
Judy Blume
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There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.
Mother Teresa
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The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
Karl Lagerfeld
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When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.
Robert Wyatt
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Take a company like GM. For years, people were warning its execs that the company was too dependent on big SUVs and trucks, that it was falling behind other companies in innovation. A lack of knowledge wasn't the problem. And mothers and fathers everywhere try to warn their kids that maybe a giant tattoo isn't such a good idea. Good luck in that fight, Knowledge.
Dan Heath
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Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
Anton Webern
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As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton