- Difficult
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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
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
- Nov 07, 2020
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I all worked for him, and he treated us just beautifully, almost like a father. When I went with my mother up to his office, he was always gentlemanly and kindly. He was sort of a quiet person.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.
- Enough Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a part of that generation, and my mother, too - the late-'30s, early-'40s big-band generation. Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey, Gene Krupa, Billie Holiday - all that stuff was in my background.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.'
- Nov 07, 2020