- 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
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics... I understood fashion at an early age, and my first designs were when I was five.
- Nov 07, 2020
When my mother threw a party, even as a kid, she'd call me in and say, 'Organize it for me.'
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both of my parents were college-educated within the curriculum in Haiti. When they came to the United States, both had to learn English. My mother worked in retail and continues to do so today, working as the lead sales representative in a fine-jewelry store. My father became a machinist.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.
- Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a mother now and married, and knowing what I know now, I would definitely have gone about things quite differently.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story I get the biggest kick out of is when my name and e-mail appeared on 'Jeopardy' a couple of years ago. My mother was a faithful viewer, and she said she was happy that they finally had an answer she knew the question to.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father definitely encouraged me. People used to tell my mom that I should be in commercials, and then everything kicked off from there, and my first gig was some print work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother knows struggle and has taught me how to lead with compassion, the compassion that should be required for every representative on every level of government.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young girl, I watched my mother hand-stitch thobes while sitting on the floor with a lamp at her side. She would make the small designs of flowers and different shapes. Just thinking about it brings up so many memories of my mother and how proud she was of being Palestinian.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother raised 14 kids, with little means, from our humble house in Southwest Detroit - and now her daughter, who started school not speaking English, is going to be a congresswoman. It was so important for her to know her strength got me here, and that I'm going to fight every day with her spirit inside me.
- Nov 07, 2020