- Family
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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
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But my mother found the books rather upsetting. I figure she read just enough to know that she didn't want to go there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not a day that goes by that I don't bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and rub the medal of the Virgin Mary that she gave me and say a Hail Mary for my mother. And then I kiss her Mass card that's right there on the dashboard.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander.
- Coloured
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.
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- Nov 07, 2020