- Government
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left when I was about 5, and Daddy started me singing in clubs. Then I started singing on the radio in Oklahoma City when I was 7.
- Exactly The Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.
- Close Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ivanka Trump is a close friend and just a wonderful person, mother, and businesswoman. Everyone thinks she has it all, but she always stresses that there is no such thing.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a mother, I'm constantly feeling like a failure.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mother grew up around horses and exposed my sister and I to riding early on. It was very important to her.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
- Commune
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.
- Immigrant
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020