Mother Quotes
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My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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I value so many people who have to work full time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud it so much.
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War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
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My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.
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Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
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So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.
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When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.
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Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.
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Nobody called her Moggy except for Mother, either. Nobody ever called me Kittycat except my family, and people who were looking for a fight.
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My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.
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Elizabeth’s hands flew to her mouth; tears filled her eyes with happiness as she realized he was fulfilling yet another of her and her mother’s intended activities. “Why are you fulfilling all of my mother’s dreams?” she asked, studying his face and searching for answers. “So you don’t run away like she did in search of them,” he replied, taking her hand. “Come on, join in!” he said, leaping around.
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Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon: Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.
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I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
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Listen.. to your motor-mouth mother..... Lovely Minato said
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I love my mother. I do love her.
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That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.
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He hoped the dead couldn’t see the living. He hoped his mother couldn’t see what was happening to them. She didn’t deserve to see this.
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I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.
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I’ve never felt guilty, by the way, about working. Because people say, “Oh, as a mother I felt really guilty about going to work”. I’ve absolutely never felt guilty.
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It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.
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The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love them.
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If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.
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There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.
