Mother Quotes
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The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework.
Donna Shalala
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My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.
Gloria Estefan
Miami Sound Machine
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Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.
Dawn French
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I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.
Nimrat Kaur
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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
Lorna Luft
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What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.
Peter Andre
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I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
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A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same.
Claire Denis
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
Edmund White
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I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.
Kat Graham
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My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.
George Benson
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The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
