Mother Quotes - Page 33

• Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.

  Nina Simone

  Emotional, Missing, Singing

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes - sweeping family sagas from India, 'lush' colonial romances from South-East Asia. Mother and daughter reconciling generational differences through preparing a 'traditional' meal together. Geishas. And even if something more exciting does manage to sneak through, it gets the same insultingly clichéd cover slapped on it anyway, so no one will ever know.

  Deborah Smith

  Daughter, Differences, Romance

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is that I was always keenly aware that life was fleeting, and that you'd better live while you have the chance. As I say in the book, since I was 19 years old I felt like I was living for two, and when I out-lived my mother, when I got into my forties, it felt like a miracle to me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think a lot of people, but particularly a lot of women, get to this stage when I'd say they're over 50. We face a lot of hard judgment from the world, we women. If you're a full-time mother, you should be out working. If you're out working, your kids must be being overlooked.

  Anna Quindlen

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

  Ayshay

  Stories, Alive, Tales

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My mother and my father taught me to look at the actual problem, not the face of it, not the veneer of it. So for me, I was never - I was impressed that it - racially, I was impressed, right, but now in America it's about economics, and it's been about economics, and honestly, everything's been about economics since I don't want to say the beginning of time, but it's been about economics for a long while.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Father, America, Long

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be." You realize that you need to like yourself.

  Angel Olsen

  Girlfriend, Father, Age

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.

  Angel Olsen

  Brother, Father, Crazy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.

  Stevie Wonder

  Queens, Watches, Television

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was born an ugly duckling due to my mother's ill health. She wasn't supposed to be pregnant, there were all kinds of complications, she couldn't survive a cesarean section etc. She said, "They didn't hand me a child, they handed me a purple melon." I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.

  Bernie Siegel

  Children, Hands, Ideas

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn't matter what job I took, my mother's answer was, "Do what will make you happy." It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today's events will bring.

  Bernie Siegel

  Jobs, Optimistic, Heart

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it's not about waging a war against everybody's disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.

  Bernie Siegel

  War, Disease, Diagnosis

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.

  Bernie Siegel

  Love Is, Opposites, Self

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Todd's mother had several children by different fathers, and Todd [Willingham] had been abandoned in California. ... He's a good-looking man. He was a witty man, you know? Funny, caring. He wasn't arrogant, but he was kind of set in his ways. If he thought something, it was one way. You could show him an alternative, but he was still going to stick by his particular view. But I could see how to women he could be a very charming, good-looking guy, especially when he was younger.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Witty, Children, Father

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• It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know. I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and her white walls with her red lipstick and my pencils. Little did she know that would later materialize into me doing what I do now - I'm a painter as well and a micromechanical engineer.

  Aldis Hodge

  Wall, Crazy, Kids

  "Aldis Hodge Emerges from the Underground". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2016.

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• I mean, just like every other prominent songwriter or producer, you have the shot. You send in records and if they make it, they make it. If they get heard, they get heard. I'm not sure if you know how that circle of songwriting and producing works, but every time a big artist is working, everybody and their mother is in the studio writing records to try to get on it.

  Bryce Wilson

  Writing, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I felt that people would criticize everything. I was so scared about playing Paris. I was very much aware that the greatest concerts my father and mother had done were there. I was sure people would be very tough.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Father, Paris, People

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Fortunately, I come from an activist mother, so I didn't have to rely on the history books. The history books teach us nothing about the Underground Railroad aside from Harriet Tubman. So I knew more about it but, obviously, I had to dig deeper and expand my knowledge and do a lot of research once I took this project on. I had, like, a good two months to research before we started shooting, which isn't a lot, and I continued it throughout the five months of us shooting.

  Jurnee Smollett

  Book, Two, Railroads

  "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

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• My parents, like others of "The Greatest Generation" who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible life for their children. My mother and father both attended college but dropped out to earn a living during the Depression, working the rest of their lives at blue-collar work.

  Dan Millman

  Children, Father, War

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• My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Home, School, Play

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• Most people who go into show business want to go into show business. I wanted to be Porky Pig. That was my goal in life when I was five, to which my mother said, you can't be Porky Pig. You're Jewish! I don't think she realized what I wanted to do with the pig...I didn't want to eat him, I wanted to voice him.

  Bob Bergen

  Thinking, Pigs, Voice

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.

  Tad Devine

  Teacher, Children, School

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It's interesting to talk to Bernie [Sanders] about his life and growing up, you know, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mother died at a very early age. He was young then. And, you know, I think that experience really shaped him.

  Tad Devine

  Growing Up, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named after. It is a passion project that I have wanted to make since her unexpected passing in 1999. The film is about my mother's calling which came late in life, at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hardworking secretary and mother of four, into a labor activist, a respected union leader, and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color, and for all Asian Pacific Americans.

  Garth Kravits

  Girl, Humble, Passion

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• I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there's a great chance you'll beat your wife. And if you were beaten as a child, there's a terrific chance you're going to be a child-beater.

  Terry Gross

  Children, Class, Wife

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