Mother Quotes - Page 20

• I got most of my confidence by having a mother who never said "I don't like this or this." It was just, "You've got to love what you have because it is the only body that has been given." I know that is where a lot of my confidence came from.

  Ashley Graham

  Body, Said, Given

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• My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh.

  Melissa Rivers

  People, Laughing, Joy

  "Joan Rivers, Comedian and TV Host, Dies at 81" by Carmel Dagan and Pat Saperstein, variety.com. September 4, 2014.

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• My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title.

  Patrick Schwarzenegger

  Titles, Nicknames

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• Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

  Carol Thatcher

  Girl, World, Firsts

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• My mother's work has been an enormous influence on me, but not literally. By that I mean, my photographs don't look like hers. That makes it difficult to compare them. What they do share is an emotional intensity.

  Amy Arbus

  Mean, Emotional, Looks

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• In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

  Sophie Calle

  Daily Activities, Agency, Detectives

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• To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he wears then is lost forever... The human mechanism is remarkably recuperative. A half hour later, the expressions are gone, the faces have changed. The mother with the dead baby in her arms does not look griefstruck anymore, no matter what she feels.

  Horst Faas

  Baby, Expression, Forever

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• I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

  Tom Cruise

  Husband, Father, Wanted

  "Tom Cruise Talks 'Rock of Ages' and Oprah-gate in his 2012 Playboy Interview". Interview with Michael Fleming, www.playboy.com. June 9, 2017.

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• I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the nomadic button and the ceaseless call for sympathy, and the greatest demand on time and patience. My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people... to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential temperament that is called, soul, humanity.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Children, People, Soul

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• On Saturdays I worked all day in Hunter Gaunt's drugstore in Winchester, and then at night, my mother drove me to Front Royal, where I sang pop tunes.

  Patsy Cline

  Night, Tunes, Hunters

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• Fathers and mothers are just people, which means they make mistakes. Don't hold that against them. Whatever flaws they may have, they created you in a moment of love, and are among the few who knew you when. When they're gone, there won't be anyone to take their place.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Father, Mistake, Mean

  Ernest Borgnine (2009). “Ernie: The Autobiography”, p.296, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Father is my Defender (Hero). Mother is my Teacher. Sister is my Counselor. Wife is my Savior. Children are my Fighters. Then what is the role of my Friend? Friend is my Motivator in life.

  Sandeep Kumar

  Teacher, Children, Father

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• When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to provoke such an attack on my well-known habits?" She replied, "Know nothing of your habits; hope they are better than your manners."

  Anne Sebba

  Lunch, Done, Bernard Shaw

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• Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought into your life.

  Joseph Cook

  Philosophy, Able, Broads

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• God said to Abraham: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee." God says to man: "First, get you out of your country, that means the dimness you have inflicted on yourself. Then out of your birthplace, that means out of the dimness your mother inflicted on you. After that, out of the house of your father, that means out of the dimness your father inflicted on you. Only then will you be able to go to the land that I will show you"

  Martin Buber

  Country, Father, Mean

  Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.56, Psychology Press

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• My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

  Dr. Dre

  Age, Fifteen, Pregnant

  "Dr. Dre: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2013.

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• I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

  Eartha Kitt

  Father, Confused, Feelings

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• Sometimes my mother goes through my socks and underwear. I wouldn't mind, but it tickles so much!

  Emo Philips

  Mind, Underwear, Sometimes

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• It's necessary to readjust and then try again. And then readjust and try again. Fathers have to do that with sons and mothers have to do that with daughters. The level of readjustment isn't quite so much when fathers are dealing with daughters and mothers are dealing with sons.

  James Spader

  Daughter, Father, Son

  "James Spader: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2009.

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• And despite everything I know now, I still believe, as I did when I was little, that there is an entire universe of things that my mother knows that I don't. I still believe that nothing truly bad can ever happen if my mother is around. I know it's not true. But still. It is true.

  Katherine Center

  Believe, Littles, Stills

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• Love is the Divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Fall, Love Is, Soul

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• My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.

  Mr. T

  Cancer, Kids, Son

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• I was mischievous. I wasn't bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn't know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

  Mr. T

  Men, Robins, Yards

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• The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine, or violated object, as well as by the religious and scientific ideology that legitimates the possession, contamination, and destruction of Mother Earth.

  Jane Caputi

  Religious, Culture, Machines

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• I am proud that I am a good mother to my children, a good daughter to my mother, a good sister to my sis (Ashley Judd) and a good wife to my new husband.

  Wynonna Judd

  Daughter, Children, Husband

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