Mother Quotes
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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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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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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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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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At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.
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America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.
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But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our shared world as possible. I was suposed to be her other half, carrying my share of the weight. In the last few weeks, I'd tried to shed it, and doing so sent everything off kilter. So of course she would pull me tighter, keeping me in my place, because doing so meant she would always be sure, somehow, of her own.
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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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When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
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My mother tongue is Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.
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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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The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called She Married Her Boss with Melvyn Douglas.
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Society's the mother of convention.
