- Fleetwood
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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
- Lived
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is Croatian but went to school in Bosnia, and my mother's also Croatian but lived in Bosnia.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
- Dismay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people, throughout history, haven't learned one language to the exclusion of another. You learn to speak differently to a peasant and to a shoemaker. You speak differently to your mother, who comes from Burgundy, and to your father, who comes from Swabia.
- Sky
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of things that I really want to say in Mende. For example, in Mende, you wouldn't say 'night came suddenly'; you would say 'the sky rolled over and changed its sides.'
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get my light eyes from my mother.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020