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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
- Family Member
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
- Nov 07, 2020
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in the 1930s and '40s. And my twin brother, Alexi, is a writer on 'The Following.'
- Motorcycle
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was an orthopedic nurse for 20 years, and she forbade all of us children to ever get on a motorcycle, and we listened.
- Each Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every morning when I woke up, my mother was already in the kitchen making breakfast. It was always the same: steamed rice, pickled vegetables, grilled fish and miso soup. Each day there was something different in the soup such as tofu or potatoes.
- Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, the current of feminism was strong. You just had to step off the bank, and you'd be swept up. There was an active women's movement. My mother was a part of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.
- Exam
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020