- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's a very spiritual woman, and I think Pentecostal religion, Bible religion, was very important to her because it gave her a context for a very spiritual approach to life.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have gone above and beyond to care for my child, including an agreed upon monthly stipend, a house, a car, insurance, school and other essentials for the baby and his mother as well as many other things, including toys and clothing.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad worked three jobs and was a teacher. My mother was a teacher's aid, making, like, $3 an hour. My father went on to get his master's and became active in all these minority engineering programs. And my mother started running for public office. All that happened after the kids were adults. But I'm insanely proud of them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.
- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretty much all my mother's side is Kiwi, and we have a strong Maori heritage.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020