- Father
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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
- Quiet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
- Perseverance
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- Nov 07, 2020
My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother looked after me full-time when I was young, but as soon as I started school, she got a job in an office.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020