Mother Quotes - Page 29

• If your mother still drives you to school, you are not a gangster, pull your pants up!

  Bill Engvall

  School, Pants, Gangsters

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• If my mom came here today, she'd probably join this red-hat brigade. My mother got my sense of humor, even when I was a kid. I would just do things that tickled my fancy in the moment, and she would ask me who I was entertaining. I'd say, 'Well, me.' And she would tell me that nobody knew that and they thought I was psychotic. Well, I don't ever want people to think I'm psychotic, but I can't help myself from doing these things.

  Howie Mandel

  Mom, Kids, Thinking

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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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• The other day my twelve-year-old says to me, I don't feel like I'm with you right now. You're in the car with me, you're checking your e-mail, you're not listening to me, I don't feel like I'm with you. And I say, You know what? That was your mother's gripe, too. And she was right. And you're also correct. When you cop to something, you get to the next level. In this case, the next level is: I just learned something from my twelve-year-old.

  Bob Saget

  Years, Car, Listening

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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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• I'd get demolitions experts to rig mother to implode like a skyscraper.

  Doug Stanhope

  Experts, Demolition, Rigs

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• You want to help mother Earth? Try sodomy. Sodomy is eco-friendly, and abortion is green.

  Doug Stanhope

  Abortion, Trying, Friendly

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• My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag.

  Doug Stanhope

  Dark, Comedy, Sense Of Humor

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• Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ambition, Personality, Floating

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3000, Manonmani Publishers

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• Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Pain, Hands

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3005, Manonmani Publishers

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• My mom had this inate ability. Whatever town my mother moved to, the second she walked into town, she would instantly attract the alpha loser of that town. This guy was not a good guy. This guy was half O.J. Simpson and half O.J. Simpson. Scott Peterson sprinkles on the top, a side of Robert Blake. You know, not a good guy.

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Guy, Half

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is ever going to describe in words what your mother looked like at twenty when the moonlight just fell on her face in such a way. Only a picture can show you that.

  Maggie Steber

  Twenties, Way, Faces

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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 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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• A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.

  Amy Tan

  Heart, Firsts

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.34, Penguin

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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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• 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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• It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography... I knew when I went into photography that I would be compared to my mother. I thought to myself, what can I do about that?

  Amy Arbus

  Photography, Trying, Would Be

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• My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to Look at this - Look at that. If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them - Isn't this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful? - then I've accomplished my purpose.

  Ruth Orkin

  Beautiful, Moving, Thinking

  Ruth Orkin (1981). “A Photo Journal”, Studio

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• [My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.

  Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

  Artist, Littles, Towers

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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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• Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.

  Patsy Cline

  Morning, Jobs, Home

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• So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements.

  Ann Coulter

  Wall, Accomplishment, Initiative

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• Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a Wall Street banker.

  Ann Coulter

  Wall, Bankers, Cracks

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