Mother Quotes - Page 26

• My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

  Felicity Kendal

  Father, Jealous, Parent

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• I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.

  Phyllis Diller

  Law, Watches, Spread

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• Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

  Edith Sitwell

  Simple, Men, Law

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• My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Done

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• Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

  Lin Yutang

  Rights, Should

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• When you find yourself a mom, you will be by no means seriously by itself with your ideas. A mother usually should think twice, once for herself and once for her boy or girl.

  Sophia Loren

  Girl, Mom, Mean

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• Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

  Oscar Wilde

  Father, Pay, Bills

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

  Fidel Castro

  Promise, I Promise, Cuban

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• My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death.

  Theo Rossi

  Stepfathers

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• I want to have young children although my mother and father are even now young sufficient to just take care of them.

  Rita Rudner

  Children, Father, Care

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• Nobody else cares about you at the beginning of your career except you-and, of course, your mother. Your mother is there because that is what mothers do.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Careers, Care, Courses

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• No matter how old you get, hug and kiss your mother whenever you greet her.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Kissing, Hug, Matter

  H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rochelle Pennington (2001). “Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well”, p.228, Harper Collins

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• I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Spiritual, Teacher, World

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• Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.

  Kathleen Parker

  Should Have, League, Nuggets

  Interview with Howard Kurtz, transcripts.cnn.com. October 5, 2008.

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• If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female soul, ritual involving dance, fire, water, air, earth, songs, music, flowers, and beauty.

  Paulo Coelho

  Song, Flower, Fire

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• I'm very, very blessed. But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to be taken away from me right now. As a mother I have to speak up and say something. I have to speak up.

  Britney Spears

  Blessed, Taken, Safety

  "A defiant Britney Spears takes on the tabloids". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2006.

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• My mother loved the Bible.

  Goldie Hawn

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• When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.

  Stephen Levine

  Father, Men, Sacred

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• Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.

  Colin Greenwood

  Play, Singing, Bumps

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• We should try to keep our mothers in the home and that's where the whole Reform platform hangs together.

  Garry Breitkreuz

  Home, Trying, Together

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• I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you."

  Kathleen Hanna

  Children, Love You, Kids

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2015.

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• Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Giving, Creative, Humanity

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I'd like to buy my mother her dream home. Hopefully it will happen soon.

  Zulay Henao

  Dream, Home, Hopefully

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

  B. B. King

  Beautiful, Player, Guitar

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. During lunch hour at school I'd avoid social interactions by sitting on the bathroom sink and reading. My mother worked in my school cafeteria. When my anxiety got really bad, I'd put a coat on, grab my book and a flashlight, and hide in the freezer with the mac and cheese.

  Jenny Lawson

  Self Esteem, Book, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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