Mother Quotes - Page 32

• Me, personally, I'm just happy. I have a great mother. I have two great sisters. I couldn't ask for more. I'm healthy. I do what I love.

  SonReal

  Two, Healthy, Asks

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute.

  Paul Mooney

  Come Up, Bother, Nun

  "CNN Talkback Live" with Bobbie Battista, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2001.

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• People say California is the leading state on these type of issues. I've called my sister today and I said - I have a 3-year-old nephew - "Do you spank?"And she says, "If it's necessary I will. But that's my decision. I'm the mother. Not you."

  Sean Hannity

  Years, California, Issues

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.

  Thom Yorke

  Artist, Wings, Political

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools. There was always music being played either on record, Jazz and Folk, by musician friends of my mother. I took to singing very early, I believe it has been a Gift I was born with.

  Vicki Sue Robinson

  Believe, School, Years

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• In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'

  Kevin Hart

  Hate, Kids, Divorce

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• I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

  Kevin Hart

  Spiritual, Fighting, Sick

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• People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.

  Imelda May

  Fun, Numbers, People

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• When I was about 17, I had a row with my mother and left home for six months, renting a flat and working as a waitress for a while. I learnt you could double your earnings if you gave good, cheerful service. It taught me that in any job you can improve your lot.

  Anne Robinson

  Jobs, Home, Cheerful

  "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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• When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.

  Zainab Salbi

  Daughter, War, Home

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• Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Jobs, Hardest Job, Earth

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• My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself with. It's my friends, particularly my wife, who is not only smarter than and stronger than I am but, occasionally taller too. I think it all goes back to my mother. My father and my stepfather prized whit and resolve in the women they were with above all things. And they were among the rare men who understood that recognising somebody else's power does not diminish your own.

  Joss Whedon

  Sexy, Father, Men

  Joss Whedon's acceptance speech at the Equality Now Award, www.americanrhetoric.com. May 15, 2006.

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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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• My mother used to say: 'It's not enough to be Hungarian. You still need a little talent, too.' To paraphrase her, its not enough to be conservative, you still need to have the brainpower to be a Supreme Court justice. And, if Harriet Miers is confirmed, she likely won't be in the same league with her colleagues in terms of gray matter.

  Dick Morris

  Gray Matter, League, Justice

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• I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Running, Home, Catholic

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• Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Maturity, Thinking, Ideas

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• When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.

  Meg Cabot

  Spring, Olympus, Stories

  "Meg Cabot's teen escapism and empowered heroines". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

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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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• 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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• I grew up as a dancer. I did tap, classical ballet, all of that. I did Indian dancing, or Bharata Natyam, classic temple dancing from Madras, originally. My mother always had the great idea that I should learn it.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Ideas, Dancing, Dancer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• My children are most important to me. I'm a mother and I adore my children. I live for them.

  Camille Grammer

  Children, Important, Adore

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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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• 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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