Mother Quotes
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I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.
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There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.
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Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.
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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.
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L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.
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Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I’m saying. And it’s the language in which I most often hear God’s voice on the rare occasion that it rises above the noise.
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My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
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In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
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I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.
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My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.
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My mother always bought our birthday gifts.
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I save all my problems for my mother.
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For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.
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It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.
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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.
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Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
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The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.
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All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.
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Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.
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I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.
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My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.
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Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.
