- Necessity
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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
Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.
- Foresight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is the mother of foresight.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership papers that Jonathan Ross once owned it. My friends slated me for it because of the colour, but it was cool. My father used to ride, and my mother's boyfriend has a bike, so we're a bit of a biker family.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son is a musician who next year will be attending the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City, which his mother helped him get into by making him practice all the time.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a tumultuous 20-year marriage, my father up and left one day, leaving my mother to raise three boys without the means to do so. And yet somehow she did. At the age of 50, she enrolled in nursing school and became a nurse and worked countless overtime hours and weekend shifts just to give us a fighting chance.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020