Mother And Father Quotes - Page 9

• My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Father, Language

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• I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America. The mother and father osprey stay together. It's a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children. They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter - the mother and father.

  Alan Lightman

  Summer, Mother, Children

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mother, Husband, Children

  Rush H. Limbaugh (1993). “See, I Told You So”, Beyond Words/Atria Books

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• Palestinians no longer blamed Yasser Arafat or Hamas for their troubles. Now they blamed the Israelis for killing their children. But I still couldn't escape a fundamental question: Why were those children out there in the first place? Where were the parents? Why didn't their mothers and fathers keep them inside? Those children should have been sitting at their desks in school, not running in the streets throwing stones at armed soldiers.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Mother, Running, Children

  Mosab Hassan Yousef (2011). “Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices”, p.158, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I enjoyed being what I was in radio, which some thought of as a shock jock although, to this day, I still can't figure out what I've done that's so shocking. As to my favorite interviews, I loved having my mother and father on. I also enjoyed talking to Elmo, who's a puppet. I found T.I.'s trying to be extra-cool very endearing. Tyra Banks was not the diva I expected her to be. I loved talking to her. And Simon Cowell is a really nice guy. Yeah! He's my fave, and he's handsome.

  Wendy Williams

  Mother, Father, Nice

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Mother, Father

  "The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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• All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

  Mitt Romney

  Love, Family, Mother

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mother, Baby, Children

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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• Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

  Mitch Albom

  Letting Go, Mother, Children

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in front of the mirror, and Ron wasn't going to stop him. That third night he found his way more quickly than before. He was walking so fast he knew he was making more noise than was wise, but he didn't meet anyone. And there were his mother and father smiling at him again, and one of his grandfathers nodding happily. Harry sank down to sit on the floor in front of the mirror. There was nothing to stop him from staying here all night with his family. Nothing at all.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Mother, Father

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• If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspiring, Success, Graduation

  "33 Inspiring Graduation Speeches From Your Fave Celebs". Seventeen magazine, Slide 25, www.seventeen.com. May 11, 2018.

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• My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.

  Fred Rogers

  Mother, Dog, Children

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• The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Mother, Father, Writing

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• We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an encounter with Him who created us and loves us more than mother and father.

  Raniero Cantalamessa

  Christian, Mother, Father

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• Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

  Martha Graham

  Mother, Memories, Father

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• Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mother, Spiritual, Father

  John Henrik Clarke (1991). “Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution”, Africa World Pr

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• In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, Attitude

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• I, Kim Heechul, was born to successfully make women fall in love with me. It's not my fault. It's not of my own free will. My mother and father created this face.

  Kim Heechul

  Mother, Falling In Love, Father

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• Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.

  John Ralston Saul

  Mother, Father, Men

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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• I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.

  Chaske Spencer

  Mother, Father, Taken

  "Chaske Spencer, Actor (Twilight)". Interview with Gabriel Canada, www.racebending.com. October 31, 2010.

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• So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.

  James Levine

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Father

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