Mother Quotes - Page 21

• I was hanging out with some of what my mother would consider the wrong kind of kids. With no direction, no motivation. I would hang out in the lunchroom all day, or the handball courts

  Angie Martinez

  Motivation, Kids, Kind

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• When my son was a mere three months old, I started working at the State Department. I was not only the youngest Assistant Secretary of State but I was also a breastfeeding mother. I'm the first to admit that this felt crazy at times, and the balancing act is never ever easy. But my two kids are the most wonderful things that have ever happened to me.

  Susan Rice

  Crazy, Kids, Son

  Susan Rice Graduation Speech at Spelman College, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2010.

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• People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

  Anne Tyler

  Children, People, Uncanny

  "Ladder Of Years". Book by Anne Tyler, 1995.

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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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• We all carry our mothers inside us.

  Katherine Center

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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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• I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.

  Freida Pinto

  Decision, Actresses, Half

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• The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.

  Richard Rohr

  Father, People, Risk

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• I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.

  Amy Grant

  Beautiful, Years, Age

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• I got my bearings, I began to focus. My mother was very supportive. When I came back to New York I landed a job at Hot 97.

  Angie Martinez

  Jobs, New York, Focus

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• My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Children, Church, Decided

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• My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

  John Sebastian

  Father, Musician, Classical Music

  Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.

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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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• I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my mother and sister, and the floor began to move under us. The hanging lamp swayed. It was very strange. My father came into the room. "It was an earthquake," he said. The center had evidently been at a considerable distance, for the movements felt slow and not shaky. In spite of a great deal of effort, an accurate epicenter was never found. This was my only experience with an earthquake until I became a seismologist 20 years later.

  Inge Lehmann

  Morning, Distance, Father

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• I was called "T-Bow" but the people got it mixed up with "T-Bone." My name is Aaron Walker but "T-Bone" is catchy, people remember it. My auntie gave it to me when I was a kid. Mother's mother was a Cherokee Indian full blooded. There were sixteen girls and two boys in my mother's family, all dead but two.

  T-Bone Walker

  Girl, Kids, Boys

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• I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin played banjo, guitar and mandolin. We played at root beer stands, like the .Drive-ins they have now, making $2.50 a night, and we had a cigar box for the kitty that we passed around, sometimes making fifty or sixty dollars a night. Of course we didn't get none of it, we kids.

  T-Bone Walker

  Cousin, Kids, Beer

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• I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

  Bedrich Smetana

  Mean, Able, Tongue

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• We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

  Alice Nutter

  Trying, Band, Firsts

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• Hateful material travels the globe. A few years ago, CNN, America's Der Sturmer, ran a story about Black parents being so low down that they abandoned their children and the children had to eat rats. I was at a University in Wisconsin at the time and the mother of a student from South Africa called to see whether the story was true. She had seen it all the way over there. The story was untrue. The children lied. CNN never corrected the story.

  Ishmael Reed

  Children, Years, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.

  Gene Wilder

  People, Giving, Please

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• Coalition [against ISIS] need the tools. And the tools involve encryption where we cannot hear what they're even planning. And when we see red flags, a father, a mother, a neighbor who says we have got a problem here, then we have to give law enforcement the ability to listen so they can disrupt these terrorist attacks before they occur.

  John Kasich

  Father, Isis, Law

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Years, Stories

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• My mother worked in a cookie factory. My father worked in a factory. So anyone that dares begrudge what I have, just better get off their duff and do something about it to do something for themselves as well as their country. I feel that I have a perfect right to spend my money the way I damn please.

  Liberace

  Country, Father, Perfect

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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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