- Me
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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
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from 'True Romance' magazine.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember vividly, as a kid, my mother had 'Jesus Was a Capricorn' and used to listen to it over and over and over.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020