Mother Quotes
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
T. D. Jakes
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I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.
Jencarlos Canela
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My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.
Brian J. White
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The mother explained it to a teacher at the school who didn't know these were gang colours, ... The kids were being recruited through their colours.
Don Meredith
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Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.
Sam Kean
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I ain't good looking And my hair ain't curls But my mother she give me something It's going to carry me through this world.
Eleanora Fagan
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The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.
Maisie Williams
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The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
N. K. Jemisin
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I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.
James Heckman
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
Naomi Benaron
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This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.
Edna O'Brien
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For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.
Elizabeth Vargas
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We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
Francis Maude
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I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.
Caitlin Rose
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I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother.
Dawn Steel
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I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember.
Joe R. Lansdale
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The Night is Mother of the Day,The Winter of the Spring,And ever upon old DecayThe greenest mosses cling.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.
Anthony Browne
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I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
Fiona Shaw
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I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
William Butler Yeats
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Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids.
Jane Pauley