- Love
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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
- Christian Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was actually born in the front bedroom while my dad sat on the wall outside, feeling sick. Twenty minutes after my mother gave birth, she went downstairs and made my old man a cup of tea.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cersei is a character who's done unspeakable things, and yet we also know that she's a mother who's lost her children - that she's been pushed to the end of her tether.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's records were formative for me, but when I became a teenager, I wanted to find songs that she wasn't hip to. She was so hip, though, that I had to go outside rock n' roll - so for about 10 years, I only listened to hip-hop, house and techno.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.
- Fluency
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- Nov 07, 2020