Mother Quotes - Page 17

• There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Home, Destiny

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

  Linda Blair

  Answers, Persons, I Can

  "Interview with The Exorcist Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• We didn't talk about devil on the set. My mother and I didn't talk about it. Billy Friedkin and I didn't talk about it. It was a closet subject. But it was the best thing that happened because I had no idea what I was going.

  Linda Blair

  Ideas, Devil, Closets

  "Interview With The Exorcist's Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Thinking, Church, Firsts

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• It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece of the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones. Now they call me Mister Rock.

  Chris Rock

  Real, Kids, Names

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Strong, Children, Party

  "Netanyahu vows to take on Barak" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2000.

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• I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Dream, Military

  "Malala's diary / "I am afraid"". Cited in: Malala Yousafzai: Portrait of the girl blogger, 10 October 2012, www.bbc.com. January 3, 2009.

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• I'd get demolitions experts to rig mother to implode like a skyscraper.

  Doug Stanhope

  Experts, Demolition, Rigs

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

  George Clooney

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Speaking of happy successes, after years of struggling to lose those few extra pounds every mother puts on during adoption, particularly when the doctor orders bed rest, in 2004 I sent my assistant to the Gap in dark glasses with a fake ID to purchase my first pair of Easy Fit jeans.

  Paula Poundstone

  Struggle, Dark, Years

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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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• When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets... I thought she'd been bitten by a Great Dane.

  Woody Allen

  Dog, Baby, Block

  "Sleeper". www.imdb.com. 1973.

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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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• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  Fatema Mernissi

  Daughter, Dream, Strong

  "Remembering Islamic Feminist Fatema Mernissi". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.

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