- Mind
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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
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like their style. I love my mother's elegant and dramatic couture dresses and the feeling for colour my father has.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom.
- Laundry
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and great grandfather on my mother's side were geologists.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sleep five or six hours a night, then crash at the weekend. I'm learning to eat properly and exercise. I relax by watching silly sitcoms like 'Scrubs' and 'How I Met Your Mother.'
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a Republican and my mother was a Democrat. In Michigan, we always fought about sports, not politics.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started running because my neighbour, Patrick Sang, was an athlete and I wanted to be just like him. Patrick came from the same village as I do and my mother used to be his teacher. I was so inspired by his success.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That's from New Hampshire. My dad's called Crazy, my mother's Happy - it's a whole thing.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.
- Different Countries
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I purely attribute my 'hamming it up' quality to growing up with three older brothers and just being like a tomboy my whole life. Literally, my mother had to be like, 'Honey, there's a certain point where you have to start wearing a shirt.' You know, I would run around with the boys and play tag football and climb trees.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020