- Food Stamps
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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
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother never threw anything out. If there was a sliver of a tomato, it was in the refridge. I would come in with my friends, and Mom would say, 'Want something to eat?' In 20 minutes, there was four, five dishes to eat.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it.
- Good Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020