- Always
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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
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every year, my father comes by and samples the chremslach - like quality control - and tells me how they taste just like his mother's.
- Filtered
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.
- Favorite Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher education in New York City and graduated in 1914 from the New York University School of Dentistry. My mother came at the age of 14 from a part of Russia which, after the war, became Poland; she was only 19 when she was married to my father.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the war, my mother used to take me to the local repertory theatre on a Monday night, and we used to get two seats for the price of one, for nine pence, in the gods.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020