Mother Quotes
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I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.
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You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.
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It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.
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Mother's Day routine is usually a lot of flour, eggs, and a big mess in the kitchen. That's what it involves in our house. Making sure that mom has her pancakes and coffee.
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The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.
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My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.
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I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.
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I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.
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My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't approve of young girls leaving home until they married, so she had to pass it up.
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The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
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I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.
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My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.
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When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn't know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.
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It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.
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I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.
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A mother's pride, a father's joy.
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I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed.
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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.
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Scene I. - (Clara, Mother, Brackenberg) Act 1, Scene 3
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People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!
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I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
