Mother Quotes
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All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.
Rod Stewart -
My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.
Jesmyn Ward
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My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'
Sofia Villani Scicolone -
My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.
Pierce Brosnan -
When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, regardless of how he feels, how hard he tries, or whether he is a good guy. Almost by definition, he has become de-fathered.
David Blankenhorn -
We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.
Rose Schneiderman -
Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
Sarah Addison Allen -
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
Cate Blanchett
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The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home.
Angus Buchan -
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore de Balzac -
My mother is French, my father is Texan.
Mireille Enos -
Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.
Dalai Lama -
When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.
Erma Bombeck -
Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
Bernard Bailyn
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If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
Bo Jackson -
At this point we understand that if the mother or other parent figure cannot provide these first few needs, the child’s physical, mental-emotional and spiritual growth would likely be stunted.
Charles L. Whitfield -
My career choice was to be a mother.
Ann Romney -
When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.
William Stanley Jevons -
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 -
I'm lucky to still have my mother who is at a very advanced age, which is pretty incredible.
Catherine Deneuve
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When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.
Anthony Robbins -
I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.
Michael Angarano -
When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.
Nomar Garciaparra -
It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.
Josh Gad