Mother Quotes - Page 16

• Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Father, Grandparent, Childhood

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• George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Doe, Fool

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• Mother came to New York to keep house for me.

  Desi Arnaz

  New York, House

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• If your mother doesn't remove the Marlboro from her lips before telling the State Trooper to kiss her ass, you might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Kissing, Redneck, Might

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• You might be a redneck if during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Senior, Redneck, Years

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• You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Sports, School, Fighting

  Jeff Foxworthy, David Boyd (2004). “You might be a redneck if--”, Rutledge Hill Pr

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• Boxing kept me out of the streets, by giving me something to do. And it gave me a father figure in the coach that was there for me. I just reiterated what my mother was trying to teach me about focusing and getting my life together.

  Martin Lawrence

  Father, Boxing, Giving

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• God inspired me, because I was blessed with the knowledge that I wanted to do this. And my mother supported it. She said, 'Whatever it is you want to do. If you believe acting or comedy is what you really want to do, I can only tell you it's not easy, it's very hard, but I'll support you.' Her supporting me enabled me to move forward.

  Martin Lawrence

  Believe, Moving, Blessed

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• I always felt bad for Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa lived a whole life helping starving children and dying villages, but she could never be declared a saint 'cause she never actually performed a miracle. And it was towards the end, she was desperate to perform a miracle, so she would go up to starving children and go, 'What's that behind your ear? It's a quarter!

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Children, Miracle, Dying

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• I hang out with my dad mostly, my dad was in the military. He's at that age now where his war stories and other stories have blended together, so now you don't know what he's talking about. One time, we were surrounded, then we ran out of ammo, then we were fighting hand-to-hand, then we started dancing, and that's how I met your mother.

  Dave Attell

  Dad, Military, War

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• A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.

  Peter Ackroyd

  England, Deities

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• You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.

  Joey Bishop

  Sunset, Names, Hollywood Hills

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• I can't change the past and I'm truly sorry that people got hurt along the way but not everything reported in the media is reality and continuing to rehash things publicly only makes it more difficult for everyone to heal. I hope for the sake of our children we can all move forward and heal privately. I wish their mother nothing but the best.

  Eddie Cibrian

  Hurt, Children, Sorry

  "Brandi Glanville Bonds With LeAnn Rimes Despite Eddie Cibrian Affair" by Benge Nsenduluka, www.christianpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• Amy Winehouse's mother wrote an open letter to the News of the World newspaper telling Amy she's worried about her and to please call her. I doubt this is the best way to communicate with Amy - she should try spelling it out in lines of cocaine.

  Chelsea Handler

  Doubt, Trying, News

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• I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

  Salma Hayek

  Greatness, Want, Actresses

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• I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

  Salma Hayek

  Daughter, People, Burden

  "Salma Hayek: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• [My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Family, Strong, Kids

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• I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Family, Kids, Gay

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• My mother would say, before I left the house, 'Remember Art, hugs are better than drugs.' And I believed my mother, I believed everything she said - until the first time I got high at a party. I leaned back, and I went, 'God, this is way better than when my Uncle Perry hugs me. What else has my mother been lying to me about?

  Artie Lange

  Art, Uncles, Lying

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• I am an immigrant in a sense. What happened was that my father was stationed in New York when my mother became pregnant, and she said, "I've got to go to Sweden so this child can be born there, because you don't have any idea where you're going to be transferred next."

  Claes Oldenburg

  New York, Children, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The bigger the budget, the more you can afford to compromise with Mother Nature. The smaller the budget, the more you're like, "Okay, well, we have to do this, but how can we afford to do it." That's when you have to get really creative on the business side, as far as making compromises.

  Thomas Ian Nicholas

  Creative, Sides, Compromise

  "Exclusive: Thomas Ian Nicholas Talks FADING OF THE CRIES and AMERICAN REUNION". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

  Chris Matthews

  Lasts, John Paul Ii, Pope

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and we tried for a couple of days to fill it out (I of course treated it like we'd been asked to write a new book of the Bible), but we got really bored with it and gave it up.

  Hank Stuever

  Couple, Book, Writing

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I'm certainly more like her.

  John Malkovich

  Memories, Father, Self

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

  Michala Petri

  Teacher, Father, Three

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