- 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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a proud mother.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, a nonpracticing Jew from Delaware, had married a non-practicing Protestant in California. Sometimes, certainly not always, Jew + Protestant = Unitarian, and that is what we were - 'Jewnitarians,' as I like to say.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a widow and a caregiver and a single mother, I'm living the experience that New Mexicans are.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in the south side of Stockton, California, to a mother still in high school and a father in a juvenile detention facility.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father has taught me not to succumb to nihilism, and my mother has taught me the value of hard work and determination.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.
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- Nov 07, 2020