Mother Quotes
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Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.
Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
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I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.
Laura Esquivel
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My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act together and do something useful. Now I think that's the most useful thing you can do: bring up some non-criminals.
Sally Phillips
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Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?
Max Muller
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My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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It is France. I know the league well. It is my mother tongue. Inevitably, there is an attraction for me. A return? It might not be my first choice, but of course, it is not impossible.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
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My mother is one of seven kids, so I have a lot of strong women in my family, and I have supportive, beautiful relationships with all of them.
Kerry Washington
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My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
Lorna Luft
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It was an amazing childhood, despite what you might think about black struggle and poor neighbourhoods and the ghetto. My mother was an educated, budding linguist who really inspired us. Some of the leading indicators of success in the world have to do with how many books are in the house when you're a kid.
Kehinde Wiley
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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 family is extremely supportive of me. My mother has been accompanying me to the shoots, and my father used to drive me around for auditions.
Krystle D'Souza
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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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My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.
Kevin Spacey
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“She’s a queen and a mother and it’s a mother’s job to be scary,” said Wish. “Well she’s very successful at her job,” shivered Bodkin.
Cressida Cowell
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I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?
Jeremy Clarkson
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You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.
Jay Leno
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My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.
Rachel McAdams
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I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.
Li Bingbing
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For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.
Elizabeth Vargas
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For my 21st birthday, I think my mother wanted to give me a watch, or something, you know, some kind of traditional thing. And I said, "Well, if you're going to buy me something, there's a Gibson Melody Maker guitar advertised in the paper for 60 dollars. Do you think I could have that?" And I think that she was very disappointed that at 21 I was still messing around with that sort of thing. She didn't understand what it was all about. But now she understands it, and likes it.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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My father had to play the role of mother and father.
Diego Luna
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When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.
Halle Berry
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My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist, and I had the most hard-working father, a television lighting director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with eyes open to sometimes harsh realities.
Meghan Markle
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Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.
Mary Lou Williams