- Father
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.
- Mother Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of NBA GMs have asked me about me why I changed my middle name to Trill. Actually, the reason why I filed the paperwork to change my name was so that I could officially add my mother's last name, Stein, to my own. My mom is my best friend, and I wanted to honor her.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020