Mother Quotes
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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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A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.
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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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There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.
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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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As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.
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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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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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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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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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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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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 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.
