- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Quotes
On mothers, their advice, and what stays with us.
Several of these lines trace back to childhood impressions left by a mother's words, whether about appearance, privacy, or simply keeping close watch. For prayer-toned reflections, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He broke his back and was disabled, and the first memory I have of him is in the hospital. My mother was a working mother - she had two jobs. Everybody in the house had to help out.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a man that's unique to the world. That's kind of the star I was born under - on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius. My mother is Irish-American, and my father is Afro-Panamanian, so it's kind of been the story of my life to be a bridge between different cultures and different styles, and musically, that's between jazz and R&B.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a bricklayer, and my mother was a housewife. It was complicated, obviously, because of our humble origin, but thank God we were all focused.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really close to my father since I was young. He always told me that I had to work in order to become a man, so I had to stay with him when my mother left. He always took me to work to help him as a bricklayer. I was just a kid, so I did what I could do to help him.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My love for artichokes comes from when I was very young. My mother and father would slice the hearts and fry them, and they would be crispy around the leaves and tender at the base.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biological mother had me at 16, and it was just too young.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and - or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.
- Barbara
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020