Mother Quotes - Page 38

• My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

  Prefuse 73

  Play, Parks, Jazz

  Interview with Jamin Warren, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• I have a good black friend who is a doctor, but he didn't become a doctor because he saw other black men who were doctors. He became a doctor because his mother cleaned office buildings at night, and because she loved her children. She grew bowlegged from cleaning office buildings at night, and in the process she taught him something about courage and bravery and dedication to others.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Children, Night, Men

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Mothers are doing a better job talking about risk, danger, reproduction, consent, unwanted pregnancy. We're not talking about how to balance the risks and joys and we're really not talking about the joys.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Jobs, Pregnancy, Talking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me.

  James Lipton

  Art, Father, School

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• There's a site on the internet that swears up and down that I'm worth $46 million and that I'm one of the most highly paid and richest guys in show business. I really wish it was true! Then there's those where it's like my mother was raped by a martian and that kind of thing. National Enquirer-type stuff. They just make it up.

  David Crosby

  Guy, Wish, Stuff

  "David Crosby answers our 11 questions". Interview with Corbin Reif, music.avclub.com. March 18, 2016.

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• I hadn't played that much before, and it was all about practicing with the University of Texas coaches. It's takes some expert to look at me pitching a ball and saying, 'we have to find the mother f**ker in you, boy!'

  Blake Jenner

  Boys, Texas, Experts

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Now, if Mary has an egg cell, then Jesus gets 50 percent of his genetic make up from his mother. And if his mother is a child of Adam, she, too,is fallen so Jesus is not perfect.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Children, Cells

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair that my mother had in this theater place. I had, like, 10 pairs of the same shoes.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Jeans, Shoes, Long

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In the show, we have recreated two sketches that my dad had, or pieces that my dad had developed. One that he had developed with my mother, one that Frank Oz had developed with my dad. And these are old pieces from the '50's and '60's, and we're going to develop more, too.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Two, Pieces

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I remember, like, literally saying - watching some cowboy-and-Indian movie with my mother, and I go, so, if we were back then, we'd be the Indians, right? She goes, yup, that's who we'd be. We wouldn't be those guys in the covered wagons. We'd be the Indians.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Cowboy, Guy, Wagons

  "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

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• The fabric of my life is under my skin; [but] it's definitely not something that comes up in a conscious way when I read material. I have an incredible relationship with my mom, so I'm fascinated by mothers who do not have that. But I've never done anything that resembled my life. People always jump to that conclusion, and I wish life were that simple, but it's not.

  Charlize Theron

  Mom, Simple, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.

  Alec Baldwin

  Children, Regret, Talking

  "Smart Alec". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 25, 2006.

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• I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be delightful and enduring. Let the children learn from your attitude that he is important. Encourage him. Be kind. It is a rough world, and he, like everyone else, is fighting to survive. Be cheerful. Don't be a whiner

  Marjorie Pay Hinckley

  Children, Husband, Attitude

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• His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.

  Ernest Jones

  Ambition, Self Confidence, Science

  Ernest Jones (1961). “The life and work of Sigmund Freud”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• That's why the virgin birth never gets rid of the human mother. The story only gets rid of the human father. So Jesus' life was the life of God nurtured through the Virgin Mary. That's because the virgin birth died as a literal story as soon as we discovered that women had an egg cell. It's interesting to watch what the Roman church did about that.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Father, Cells

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I tried to always include my children in everything that I did. I traveled with them, I brought them with me to work, I tried to balance it between work and being a mother as best as I could.

  Jill Stuart

  Children, Balance, Traveled

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the intimacy of the mother with a newborn baby. But with a newborn baby, it is unconditional.

  Isabel Allende

  Baby, Sex, Profound

  "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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• My mother gave me an Oscar de la Renta Gone with the Wind ballgown dress. I've never had a place to wear it out to because it's so old-fashioned fancy and beautiful, so I need to find a place to wear it but if I don't, I'll still keep it forever.

  Elizabeth Jagger

  Beautiful, Wind, Forever

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I always asked my mother, I said, 'Momma, how come is everything white?' I said, 'Why is Jesus white with blond hair and blue eyes? Why is the Lord's supper all white men? Angels are white, the Pope, Mary, and even the angels.' I said, 'Mother, when we die, do we go to Heaven?' She said, 'Naturally we go to Heaven.' I said, 'Well, what happened to all the black angels?'

  Muhammad Ali

  Jesus, Eye, Angel

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is that you're really trained to listen and to be open and have empathy. It's such a natural consequence that you end up being more political. You can empathize with the mother whose kids are going to be sent to Iraq, or you can emphasize with the mother who is losing their child to a disease. How could you not then be active? So you're automatically drawn to that aspect in the rest of your life.

  Susan Sarandon

  Children, Real, Kids

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• [My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

  Billy Crystal

  Teacher, Art, Brother

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• The European problem is that it assumes that the minute a woman has a child, the mother identity subsumes the professional identity. Now she's the mother, above all, and we must give her all this time.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Children, Giving, Identity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think I was afraid of being a mother for many reasons. I wanted to be a good mom and I was fearful at one point of even working at the national level because I was afraid that I would disappoint a child or I wouldn't be as ready for a big position as maybe I should have been when I came to Fox.

  Ainsley Earhardt

  Mom, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Thinking, Arrows, Wife

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.

  Rachel Holmes

  Childhood, Parent, Movement

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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