- Love
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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
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter gets a lot of her natural music ability from her mother because she's a world-class singer, also.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anybody else could have gone out there with Brock Lesnar and do what I did. I stand by that, and I'm proud of it. My father and my mother were in the front row watching, and they got to see their son go toe-to-toe with Brock Lesnar. Not many people can say that.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is getting up there in age, and sometimes I go visit her in Florida. I cook for all of her friends. Sometimes I have to avoid the table because I do not want to hear what they're talking about.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a memory of my mother kneeling in front of a cabinet in our home, tenderly cradling her wedding china. We never used the plates; she died in her 40s without ever letting herself enjoy these gorgeous pieces. I told myself that I would use my precious items.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was wild. My mother couldn't control me.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved my mother and father.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philadelphia's Schuylkill River has long been the mother of waters for mid-Atlantic rowers, just as the Charles, which separates Boston from Cambridge, is for New England boaters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence was very much a part of my mother's upbringing - a little less so with my father's, but my father was an angry man when he was young. He was angry and frustrated and had no idea how to channel anger.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020