Mother Quotes - Page 31

• I think that I learned music. And also you learn recommendations that you can use in your life. When you travel, you all the time remember what your mother teach you. You know in the African family the mother has a big role to play because the father is outside in the fields or going to work.

  Baaba Maal

  Father, Thinking, Play

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• My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a relationship to dance styles - The Well and the Gentle or The Wanderer for example.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Home, Play, Style

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• My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert master, he took me to a lot of rehearsals, concerts, performances, opera, ballet. For me, that was life.

  Lalo Schifrin

  Uncles, Father, Aunt

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• When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

  Mr. T

  Beautiful, Strong, Brother

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• I think that in a family some are workers some are not. I certainly saw my mother work very hard and be in charge and never show any kind of fear about business deals. Her golden rule was you should never be embarrassed talking about money and asking for what you deserved. I take the same view.

  Anne Robinson

  Thinking, Business Deals, Views

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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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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• I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.

  Gene Wilder

  Thinking, Sick, Everyday

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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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• My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.

  Tupac Shakur

  Kids, Dark, Two

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

  Johnny Cash

  Television, Quitting, Talent

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.

  Len Elmore

  Father, Book, Stressed

  Source: aalbc.com

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• My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That's why I'm not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.

  Benjamin Carson

  Hard Work, Giving, Political

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in her body and gave birth to me out of her desire but washed her hands of me after giving birth to me as a poet.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Book, Writing, Hands

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My mom does not exist anymore, and I cannot see my mother in myself. To me, the word "mother" is the synonym for the words "parting" or "separation" or "farewell."

  Kim Hyesoon

  Mom, Farewell, Doe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Flower, Giving, Water

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Gone, Body, Said

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.

  Grace Paley

  Thinking, People, Mysterious

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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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• Becoming a mother has made me even more aware and more passionate about nutrition and wellness. So much so that I am now a certified health coach practitioner.

  Miranda Kerr

  Passionate, Becoming, Nutrition

  "The Style Q&A: Miranda Kerr". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 9, 2012.

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• I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It's nothing complicated, it's not rocket science. It's about empathy. It's about understanding that what happens with one person is potentially what happens to you, and seeing yourself in someone else's shoes. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

  Annie Lennox

  Sadness, Simple, Shoes

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• In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that.

  Annie Lennox

  Baby, Children, Europe

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting HIV are about 40%. So it's about the difference between 40% and zero. This is almost totally preventable. But it requires mothers coming for care and getting the medicines they need, and getting the education and support they need.

  Annie Lennox

  Baby, Zero, Medicine

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.

  Annie Lennox

  People, Community, Understanding

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I hate being away even for a day. But I'm happiest when I'm working and have my own things going on, so it ultimately makes me a better mother and wife.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Hate, Wife, My Own

  "Kristin Cavallari: Designing a Healthy, Balanced Life". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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