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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a Commodore, and then I remember getting a Nintendo for Christmas and it being a total game-changer. And the hours that I would spend playing the video game and trying to convince my mother that it was improving my hand-eye coordination. It was a worthy use of time. It made my hand-eye coordination better!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I played 'Super Mario Bros' and 'Megaman 2' and '3' for hours and hours, trying to convince my mother they were good for me because they helped my hand-eye coordination. They influenced a whole generation of people to make computers what they are now, through problem-solving and so on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've thought about adopting, but I'm a bit paranoid that because I'm gay and disabled I'd be put straight off the list. My mother thinks that I would jump the queue because they like minorities adopting. I have great genes, though, and I would like to pass them on.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother endlessly told me I was too fat, that I wasn't a patch on my sister. It wasn't much fun growing up with her and her almost irrational social climbing in that huge house of my dull stepfather Hughdie Auchincloss in Washington.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw a play with my mother until I was 14, and then it was 'Hansel and Gretel.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020