Mother And Father Quotes - Page 7

• I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.

  Audre Lorde

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name". Book by Audre Lorde, 1982.

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• Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

  Olivia Williams

  Mother, Memories, Father

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• I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

  Beverly Cleary

  Inspiring, Mother, Children

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• The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Mother, Father, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

  Ellen Muth

  Mother, Father, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

  Bob Matsui

  Mother, Father, Taken

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• Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Mother, Jobs

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.1.

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• The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

  Maureen Howard

  Christian, Mother, Father

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• Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

  David Dinkins

  Mother, Father, Six

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• Nothing is nicer than diving with your eyes open. Diving down as far as the shimmering legs of your mother and father who have just come back from swimming and now are wading to shore through the shallow water. Nothing more fun than to tickle them and to hear, muffled by the water, how they shriek because they know it will make their child happy.

  Jenny Erpenbeck

  Mother, Children, Fun

  Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.62, Granta Books

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• I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Mother, Father, Decision

  "Russian ex-president Yeltsin dies". news.bbc.co.uk. April 23, 2007.

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• When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources. That you be willing to pay Black people reparations for our years and years of service in this country. That you be willing to go home and tell your white mother and father about white racism and how it affects and kills Black people in our communities. That's my definition of good white people, and I haven't met any like that.

  Sister Souljah

  Mother, Country, Giving Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and we're them at another point in the cycle. The deer are twice your parents, for your mother and father are deer, and the deer that gave you its life today was mother and father to you as well, since you wouldn't be here if it weren't for that deer.

  Daniel Quinn

  Mother, Father, Cycle Of Life

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• I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the overwhelming similarities in parents' behaviors. I think this is a hangover from the 1950s re-emergence of father as a parent. He has to be special. The best summary of the evidence on mothers and fathers with their babies is that young children of both sexes, in most circumstances, like both parents equally well. Fathers, like mothers, are good parents first and gender representatives second.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Baby, Sex

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• Every human being is a universe within themselves. Your mother and father participated with God to create a soul who would never cease to exist. Your parents, as co-creators, supplied the stuff, genetics and more, uniquely combined to form a masterpiece, not flawless but still astounding; and we took from their hands what they brought to us, submitting to their timing and history and added what only we could bring to them -- life. You were conceived, a living wonder who exploded into being.

  William P. Young

  Mother, Father, Hands

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• In an ideal society, mothers and fathers would produce potty- trained, civilized, responsible new citizens while government and corporate leaders would provide a safe, healthy, economically just community.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Father, Government

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• When guys come over to date my daughter, I'm going to tell them, 'I want you to go out and have a very good time with my daughter. I want you to enjoy yourself and have her home on time. If you abuse her in any way, I'm going to kill your mother and father, cut your back open, pull out your spine, and leave you in a wheelchair so you can think about what you did for the rest of your life. Now, go out and have a good time!'

  Conrad Dobler

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  "Conrad Dobler: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Baseball, Football, Mother

  "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview REAL STEEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.

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• I think, though, the biggest heroes in my life would have been both my mother and father. My father because he was very brave and a kid from the Depression. And my mother, a child from the Depression too, who always remained so lovely her whole life.

  Susan Stroman

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.

  Tracy Morgan

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

  Henry Cavill

  Mother, Father, Boys

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Country, Father

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mother, Father, Wedding Anniversary

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