Mother Quotes - Page 28

• The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

  Clive Barnes

  Dying, Staircases, Familiar

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• My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to.

  Albert Brooks

  Knowing, Supportive, World

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Father, Grandparent, Childhood

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• If your mother doesn't remove the Marlboro from her lips before telling the State Trooper to kiss her ass, you might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Kissing, Redneck, Might

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• You might be a redneck if during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Senior, Redneck, Years

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• Boxing kept me out of the streets, by giving me something to do. And it gave me a father figure in the coach that was there for me. I just reiterated what my mother was trying to teach me about focusing and getting my life together.

  Martin Lawrence

  Father, Boxing, Giving

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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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• You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.

  Joey Bishop

  Sunset, Names, Hollywood Hills

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• Amy Winehouse's mother wrote an open letter to the News of the World newspaper telling Amy she's worried about her and to please call her. I doubt this is the best way to communicate with Amy - she should try spelling it out in lines of cocaine.

  Chelsea Handler

  Doubt, Trying, News

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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'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Family, Kids, Gay

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• My mother would say, before I left the house, 'Remember Art, hugs are better than drugs.' And I believed my mother, I believed everything she said - until the first time I got high at a party. I leaned back, and I went, 'God, this is way better than when my Uncle Perry hugs me. What else has my mother been lying to me about?

  Artie Lange

  Art, Uncles, Lying

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• The bigger the budget, the more you can afford to compromise with Mother Nature. The smaller the budget, the more you're like, "Okay, well, we have to do this, but how can we afford to do it." That's when you have to get really creative on the business side, as far as making compromises.

  Thomas Ian Nicholas

  Creative, Sides, Compromise

  "Exclusive: Thomas Ian Nicholas Talks FADING OF THE CRIES and AMERICAN REUNION". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

  Chris Matthews

  Lasts, John Paul Ii, Pope

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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• You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Careers, Work Out

  "Michelle Obama’s tips for being happy, healthy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.today.com. October 5, 2009.

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• I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list.

  Michelle Obama

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Priorities

  "Michelle Obama’s tips for being happy, healthy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.today.com. October 5, 2009.

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• I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.

  A. R. Rahman

  Awards, Done, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

  Betty Friedan

  Energy, Use, Discrimination

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

  Betty Friedan

  Husband, Children, Real

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Expression, Roots

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 27, 2009.

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• When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break from being a mother or running a charitable organization and other philanthropic projects that I'm really passionate about.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Running, Holiday, Organization

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I've always been willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've always been one who has always done things the way I thought they should be done and not, and not having to answer to anybody for it and I've always taken my own chances and I've always followed by instincts according, mother would follow, follow wit, instincts, wisdom, whatever, always followed that.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Children, Father, Taken

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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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