Mother And Father Quotes - Page 4

• Let's learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.

  Hillary Clinton

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.

  Jessy Schram

  Friendship, Mother, Father

  "Jessy Schram Talks Falling Skies, Last Resort and Once Upon a Time". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we our given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more. Sometimes it doesn't, and we just continue these cycles.

  Alice Englert

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  Source: collider.com

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• My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.

  Monte Irvin

  Mother, Father, Two

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• I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.

  Denzel Washington

  Mother, Father, Believe

  "Denzel Washington ‘The Great Debaters’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. December 24, 2007.

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• My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Father, Gay

  "Crystal clear". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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• Take a company like GM. For years, people were warning its execs that the company was too dependent on big SUVs and trucks, that it was falling behind other companies in innovation. A lack of knowledge wasn't the problem. And mothers and fathers everywhere try to warn their kids that maybe a giant tattoo isn't such a good idea. Good luck in that fight, Knowledge.

  Dan Heath

  Tattoo, Mother, Father

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• My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.

  Len Elmore

  Mother, Father, Book

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

  Edward Zigler

  Mother, Children, Father

  "The Progressive". Interview with Ruth Conniff, June 1, 2002.

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• Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.

  Louise Erdrich

  Mother, Father, Eye

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• Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?

  Sean Hannity

  Daughter, Mother, Giving Up

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• Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

  Viktor Yushchenko

  Change, Mother, Father

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• Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Mother, Father, Crazy

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• My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

  Mother, Father, Honor

  Source: collider.com

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• My parents, like others of "The Greatest Generation" who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible life for their children. My mother and father both attended college but dropped out to earn a living during the Depression, working the rest of their lives at blue-collar work.

  Dan Millman

  Mother, Children, Father

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• What kind of country are we, to participate in separating mothers and fathers from their children? Right now we have," and whatever the number is, "800,000 children 15 and under who've arrived in our country in the last two years, and where are their parents? We have not let them come in. And we can't deport them. Why send them back to the hellholes?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mother, Country, Children

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Mother, Father, Past

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• You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mother, Father, Born

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• But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Mother, Father, Games

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• His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of an exotic foreign ritual. Besides, those who worked hardest for others, like Mrs. Philips and Mrs. Gilmour and Dr. Ransome, often held beliefs that turned out to be correct.

  J. G. Ballard

  Christian, Mother, Father

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• The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

  George Clooney

  Mother, Father, Laughing

  "George Clooney's Rules for Living" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. December 2013.

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• You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. Number one: They're trying to please whoever signed them to a contract. Number two: They're trying to appease a gigantic audience and they get this false magnification of love. I came from a thing which nowadays would be the exception to the rule. I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. Which made me look at everything else as procedure.

  Chuck D

  Mother, Father, Love You

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview With Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

  Jane D. Hull

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Daughter

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• My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Father, People

  "Patti Smith: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

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• For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea. The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical. Coraline liked it enormously. She wished they had it at home. "How are your dear mother and father?" asked Miss Spink. "Missing," said Coraline. "I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'm on my own. I think I've probably become a single child family.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Children, Father

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.60, A&C Black

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