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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
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously Gwilym is a very Welsh name! My father is from Maesteg, and my mother's from Abergavenny.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is my present, you know. My present from Mother.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Berta Caceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through Central America in the 1980s. Her mother, a midwife and social activist, took in and cared for refugees from El Salvador, teaching her young children the value of standing up for disenfranchised people.
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- Nov 07, 2020