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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of 10 children, and all my brothers call me Jim. And all my sisters... well, they call me something even more affectionate. My mother calls me James, and I do what my mother tells me.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I become an actor? Where did I get the so-called talent to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can remember that she used to, what she called 'bei zhu.'
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed because an adult figure, typically a mother, maybe a grandmother, nourishes the kid, supports the kid, protects the kid, encourages the kid to succeed. It's as if the environment never happened.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.
- Herself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.
- Defer
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
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