Mother Quotes
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He who has realized God does not look upon a woman with the eye of lust; so he is not afraid of her. He perceives clearly that women are but so many aspects of the Divine Mother. He worships them all as the Mother Herself.
Ramakrishna
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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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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
Halle Berry
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My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across.
Poppy Delevingne
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I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.
Jacqueline de Ribes
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I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
William Butler Yeats
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My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.
Jenny Lewis
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Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
Cotton Mather
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When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.
Kate Bush
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My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
David Cassidy
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When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.
America Ferrera
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My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.
Jesmyn Ward
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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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Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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My mother came to a Smashing Pumpkins gig once, and I was wearing a dress. She was very upset. She said, 'Everyone's gonna think you're a fag.' I said,'Well, they already think I'm an asshole.'
Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
Lars von Trier
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Among all the characters mentioned in the Bible, none is more mysterious than Melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly kin, and holding the dual office of king and priest.
Max Heindel
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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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
Alan King
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No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.
Desmond Morris
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain
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My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.
Jack White The White Stripes
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I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.
Seth MacFarlane
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I am a Cuban mother, and you do not let your cubs get into trouble without you trying to help them all the way.
Cristina Saralegui