Mother Quotes
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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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My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.
Corey Hawkins
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I would say where I feel like I'm struggling the most in learning and giving myself permission to fail is in finding the balance in life. There are different aspects to women: there's the mother, there's the working woman, there's the wife, the friend, the sister, the daughter and so just figuring that all out. I continue to want to try new things and give myself permission to not be great at it.
Sara Blakely
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Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.
Kevin Plank
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My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.
Jill Lepore
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O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For ye are still her ancient seed On younger soil let fall— Children of Britain's island-breed, To whom the Mother in her need Perchance may one day call.
William Watson
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A baby is a very heavy thing, any mother will tell you.
George Ella Lyon
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The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.
Cathie Linz
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
Rachel Carson
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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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I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.
Carol Burnett
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
Franz Grillparzer
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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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My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
Melissa Etheridge
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The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.
Lao Tzu
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I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.
Melissa Bean
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
Robert W. Service
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I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.
Sharon Stone
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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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Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. But did his mother ever change him back to a U.S. citizen? When he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii or as he neared college-age preparing to apply to schools, did he ever change his citizenship back? I’m betting not.
Wayne Allyn Root
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My mother was my best friend and confidante.
Renata Tebaldi
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My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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