Mother Quotes
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Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian writers usually say "God," "Mother Earth," "Human Being, Dog, and Bird."
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Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.
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All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
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My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
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He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.
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You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.
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A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.
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If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.
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I am my mother's daughter.
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That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.
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The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.
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Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together.
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I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers.
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I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.
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He was always part of her thoughts, and now that he was real, he was inescapably part of her life, but it was as she had told her mother: saying he was part of her or that they were more than friends sounded like love, but it seemed like loss as well. All the words she knew to describe what he was to her were from love stories and love songs, but those were not words anyone truly meant.
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My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
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I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.
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Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that the marchioness must have converted to Catholicism upon arriving in Italy. The Catholic Church would never have acknowledged her marriage in the Church of England." "Ah, so it is we who are illegitimate." Nick's words were punctuated with a wry smile. "To Italians, at least," Gabriel said. "Luckily, we are English." "Excellent. That works out well for us.
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Part of Mother went with them. It is an acrobatic feat that only mothers can understand, this ability to be with every child.
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Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.
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the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.
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Margaret Thatcher admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!
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Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
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My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.
