Mother Quotes
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I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive.
Judy Collins
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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.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.
Carrie Fisher
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I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.
Lauren Bacall
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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.
Harry Dean Stanton
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My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.
Carrie Fisher
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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.
Sarah Dessen
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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.
Mother Teresa
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Society's the mother of convention.
Carolyn Wells
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.
Thomas Carlyle
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If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.
Carrie Fisher
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My mother tongue is Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.
Mother Teresa
