- End
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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
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother wrote a teen column for the South China Morning Post in the 1950s when she was growing up in Hong Kong. Her name was Lily Mark, but she sometimes wrote under her confirmation name, Margaret Mark. That was how she met my father.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We had ancestors who came over at the turn of the century. One worked in a laundry, as is typical of Chinese-American immigrants.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I loved looking at the photos in my mother's old Betty Crocker cookbook: the chocolate cakes, the cookie house, even the cheese balls and fondues.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is deeply pragmatic by nature. Perhaps you had to be, as an immigrant. You made do.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother ended up getting a Ph.D. of her own, in chemistry, and eventually became a tenured professor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a character I played in 'Love in a Cold Climate' - very like my mother. I asked if I could wear a man's shoes and hat to feed the chickens: all things from her. In fact, every part I play has got an enormous amount of her in it.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the daughter of a poor immigrant family.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was obsessed with clothes, so - as people do - I went in the other direction.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020