Mother Quotes - Page 14

• My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Father, Dragons

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

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• My mother-in-law buys her coats in a carper shop. She wears a 9x12.

  Phyllis Diller

  Law, Coats, Shops

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• Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Soul, Atmosphere

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• I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Art, Memories, Doors

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• At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

  Michael Caine

  Father, School, Wife

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• My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

  Henry Rollins

  Voice, Albums, African Music

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• I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.

  Joe Bastianich

  Icons, Style, Together

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• When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl - she wanted a divorce.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Divorce, Born

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• Running isn't a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can't be a sport. I can run, you can run. My mother can run, you don't see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated do you?

  George Carlin

  Sports, Running, Can Do

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really amazing human being and is very patient. She had enough patience for me, as a kid, which I'm very thankful for. She made sure that music was a part of my general education as well.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• Mother has to be coerced into doing a lot of things.

  Bess Truman

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• Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.

  Charley Pride

  Like Her, Talkative, Persons

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• We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

  Nhat Hanh

  Moving, Fall, Ideas

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• My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

  Eva Green

  Moving, London, France

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• We all show facets, to your mother, or to your boyfriend, or a friend. You're always a bit different.

  Eva Green

  Your Boyfriend, Different, Shows

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Ears, Public Relations, Figments

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• My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work.

  Henry Rollins

  Doors, Years, Eclectic Style

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• I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

  Shirley Temple

  Careers, Two, Wife

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• Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.

  George Clooney

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• I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.

  Joe Bastianich

  Believe, Thinking, Flying

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• I told my mother-in-law my house is your house. So she sold it.

  Henny Youngman

  Law, House, Mother In Law

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• I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.

  Phyllis Diller

  Baby, Laughing, Firsts

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• My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband.

  Phyllis Diller

  Husband, Law, Crime

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• And I've always been paranoid. I can remember as a baby my mother would spin the mobile above my head and thinking..."yeah, that's coming down."

  Dennis Miller

  Baby, Thinking, Remember

  "Dennis Miller: Black and White". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1990.

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