- Man
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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
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
- Suffering
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to use the right knives and forks and behave properly.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and was very grateful to them for everything, and I didn't want to disappoint them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, it was going to my mother.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 or 1943, she was taken back to Auschwitz, which was just 30 miles from where she grew up. Her parents died there and a lot of her family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In a way, my life belongs to her. When I was a child, she complained that I was anorexic, so they sent me to places to get me to eat. When I look at pictures of myself, I was just a normal-looking child. It was her fantasy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My mother was a mentor by showing me an example to say that if women have tenacity, they can achieve whatever they have to.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020