- Ordinary
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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
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General's band, so that made her important as well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had stopped going to church the moment I joined the Regiment. No more could my mother nag me into God's presence.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sister was the glamourous one and her movies portrayed her beauty and glamour. As a person, she has enormous patience and has single-handedly supported my mother and my siblings. I have always admired her loyalty to the family.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is not a Catholic, but she's always tried to drag my brother and my sister and I to church from a very young age, and we have always put up a little bit of a rebellion against it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.
- Nov 07, 2020
My son has an old mother.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, all of her sisters and my siblings all went through a stage from the age of about 15 to 19 where they widened and then lengthened. Had I not been modelling, that would have been a phase that was in a family photo album rather than in Vogue.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mother Tessa married my stepfather, James, when I was three and we lived in Boston for a year.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.
- Television
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic' in connection with bands. But what does that mean? A baby crying after being pushed out of its mother's womb, now that's what I'd call authentic.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020