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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.
- Nov 07, 2020
But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a bath - at 14 months or something like that. My mother and dad both swore that was true, but I'm sure it wasn't very good... We always had the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday afternoons.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
- Despises
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020