Mother Quotes - Page 38

• My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity.

  Martin Schulz

  Brother, Childhood, Unity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.

  Ani DiFranco

  Self, Talking, Years

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• We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

  Annie Lennox

  Raised, Extraordinary

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

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• Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another. You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love. I like this definition of love because it's not just for the romantic lovers out there but the love of a friend, a mother, sibling - all kinds of love.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Sibling, Love Is, Romantic Love

  "Michael Adam Hamilton: Celebrating Life and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.

  Coco Chanel

  Heart, Men, Facts

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, Logic, Shock

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

  Syesha Mercado

  Father, Stories, Remember

  "American Idol’s Syesha Mercado: On Honesty, Acceptance, and Being Present". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My mother dedicated over fifty years of her life to the nursing profession, giving selflessly of her time, energy, and passion for the benefit of others. I always marvel at what an indelible and honorable contribution she has made and hope to be able to make a similar impact over the course of my life and career.

  Ian Anthony Dale

  Passion, Nursing, Years

  "Actor Ian Anthony Dale: On ​​Being Stereotyped, ​​His Deep-Fried Childhood, and Letting Failure Make You Stronger". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families.

  Patricia Arquette

  Rights, Parent, Trying

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• I've always been a very rebellious, philosophical person, so my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy for other people. But then, being a sort of rebellious, philosophical thinker, I'm always looking for new ways to shake things up. So I feel like I'm really lucky to be alive in a time where there's so much opportunity to disrupt and shake it up. It's sort of a combination between that and having the foundation that my mother gave me.

  Adrian Grenier

  Appreciation, Philosophical, Opportunity

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• My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child.

  Paul Smith

  Uncles, Children, Names

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• He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household.

  Paul Smith

  Father, Basements, Workshops

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• I am a champion. My mom made sure that I did yoga every day. She dragged me because that was something she was doing for herself. She would have a great time with her friends. All the mothers would sit together and the kids all did yoga.

  Rajashree Choudhury

  Mom, Yoga, Kids

  "Rajashree Choudhury Interview Part II". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

  Michael Franti

  Baby, Nine, Months

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's also hard for me to understand growing up not knowing where I came from. I searched for my parents - I started when I was twenty; I found both my mother and my father when I was twenty-two. Trying to catch up on twenty-two years that we can never get back, trying to reconcile that - that's a hard thing for me.

  Michael Franti

  Growing Up, Father, Years

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I trained and worked really hard all my life in dance classes. I always fell into the shadows of my mother, and it was hard for me to really realize that I had done the work. Yes, she took me to the best teachers, but I did the work.

  Vivian Nixon

  Teacher, Class, Shadow

  "Legendary Dance Icon Debbie Allen and Vivian Nixon, Her Daughter". Interview with Chelsea Logan,

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• I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know that it hurts like hell, and then you get a little bit of a respite, and then it comes back, and it hurts like hell. I know it can be survived.

  Emily Saliers

  Hurt, Grief, Littles

  "Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls | Outspoken. Unapologetic. A Voice for Women". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

  Gena Rowlands

  Daughter, Stories, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The ripping and tearing of an unborn child from his mother's womb through the hands of another, and we say, "That's fine; you have a constitutional right to do that."

  Tom Coburn

  Children, Hands, Unborn Child

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.

  Samuel Alito

  Country, Teenager, Father

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

  Samuel Alito

  Father, College, Degrees

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued to work as a teacher and a principal until she was forced to retire.Both she and my father instilled in my sister and me a deep love of learning.

  Samuel Alito

  Teacher, New York, Father

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• I play classical music almost exclusively. I never mastered jazz or gospel in the way that my mother did. She was a fine improvisational musician. I pretty much have to stick to what's written on the page.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Play, Sticks, Musician

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family.

  DJ Khaled

  Father, Team, Care

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• I had more problems with the men in our own government, and not because they were male chauvinistic pigs but because they had known me for so long. I might have been a carpool mother and a friend of their wife, and so they'd been to my house for dinner and things like and they thought 'how did she get to be secretary of state when I should be secretary of state?' So that was more of a problem.

  Madeleine Albright

  Men, Pigs, Long

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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