Mother Quotes - Page 25

• The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Stars, Father, Kids

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• My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Teacher, Reading, Teaching

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• If you're neurotic and you think, I'm not where I deserve to be or my mother didn't love me, or blah, blah, blah, that lie, that neurotic vision, takes over your life and you're plagued by it 'til it's cleansed. In a play, at the end of the play, the lie is revealed. [T]he better the play is, the more surprising and inevitable the lie is, as Aristotle told us. Plays are about lies.

  David Mamet

  Lying, Thinking, Play

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• I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

  Sharon Stone

  Ice, Relentless, Sells

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• We all carry our mothers inside us.

  Katherine Center

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• St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for what others will say of him. O my God, why do we not ask what Jesus Christ or his holy mother will think of our conduct?

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Thinking, Feet

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• I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

  Kate Beckinsale

  Daughter, Children, Book

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• My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

  Sidney Poitier

  Father, Be Kind, Firsts

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• My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.

  Erin Wasson

  Teenager, School, Pairs

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• I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brother, Father, Wife

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.22, Coyote Canyon Press

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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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• I have said often, and I am sure of it, that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is abortion. If a mother can kill her own child, what is there to stop you and me from killing each other? The only one who has the right to take life is the The One who has created it.

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Abortion, World

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• For me, being a mother made me a better professional, because coming home every night to my girls reminded me what I was working for. And being a professional made me a better mother, because by pursuing my dreams, I was modeling for my girls how to pursue their dreams.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Dream, Home

  Address at 'Let Girls Learn' Joint Partnership Announcement, delivered 19 March 20105, Iikura Guest House Tokyo, Japan

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• I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

  Maya Angelou

  Parent, Kind

  "Exclusive Interview With Maya Angelou on Her New Book, Mom & Me & Mom". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?

  Sean Hannity

  Daughter, Giving Up, Father

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• Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday, they can grow up and be president of the United States.

  John McCain

  Children, Growing Up, America

  John McCain at Atlantic Council Awards Dinner, www.atlanticcouncil.org. April 29, 2010.

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• But I understand that relationship; I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.

  Wanda Sykes

  Daughter, Law, Conflict

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• Women, I think we can feel like we need to do it all and be it all. What's important is that we do the best we can, and just make time for yourself because when you do make time for yourself, you give back more as a mother; you give back more to your work.

  Miranda Kerr

  Thinking, Giving, Important

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• Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!

  Richard Hammond

  Kids, Years, Fishing

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• With three boys in the house, my mother was always on us when growing up about keeping our faces clean, washing behind our ears, and brushing our teeth. So I still take my morning routine seriously.

  Cam Newton

  Morning, Growing Up, Boys

  "Cam Newton Wants to Teach You How to Wear a Sweater". Interview with Nic Screws, www.bloomberg.com. December 29, 2015.

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• If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

  John C. Maxwell

  Father, Want, Ifs

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• My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.

  Will Rogers

  Years, Understanding, Littles

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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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• I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

  Sidney Poitier

  Force, Remarkable, Persons

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October 2000.

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