Mother Quotes
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
M. J. Rose
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
Carla Bruni
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp
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The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.
Isaac Asimov
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Mrs. Pidgeon: That little girl whose mother is in the, um, 'threesome.' Why do you say she's confused about her gender? She seems perfectly normal to me.Sparrow: Mom, she's a boy.Mrs. Pidgeon: Oh. Well then, I'm not quite so worried about that revealing top. I was going to speak to her mother.
Alison Bechdel
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
Sally Field
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At one time, my mother did plan to divorce my father when she found out about an affair he had with a model, the sister of one of my brother's girlfriends.
Penny Junor
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Listen," he said. "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" No, but--" You're goddam right they don't
J. D. Salinger
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My late mother was very clear to my sister and I that we were to be strong women; that we were to be effective; that we were to be heard.
Christine Quinn
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Karl Kraus
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Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
Kate Middleton
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A woman living with her mother has limited freedom; a man living with his mother has limited freedom and limited respect. For most men, the vacuum (of no support system) is so devastating, they’d rather agree with their wife than express their feelings and risk emotional withdrawal.
Warren Farrell
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Sometimes I would ride with my daughter in the car to go make transactions. A couple of times me, her and my baby mother would be in the car and you know we would kind of be riding dirty. So like I said, again man, I was very naïve.
Nelly
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
Ice T
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
Katha Pollitt
