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  • More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet."

    Mother   Men   Planets  
    "Dreams from My Father". Book by Barack Obama, 1995.
  • One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

  • I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

    Mother   Lying   Way  
  • My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

  • How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

  • Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!

    Girl   Daughter   Mother  
  • They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.

    Mother   Father   Texas  
  • ...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me in, my grandparents told her (my mother); there was a long waiting list, and I was considered only because of the intervention of Gramps' boss, who was an alumnus (my first experience with affirmative action, it seems, had little to do with race).

    Mother   School   Islands  
  • In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

    Mother   Home   Sweat  
    "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".
  • The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding, so it makes me more motivated. It's like my mother said about having an artistic child - she learned more from him and he gets more attention and more of the love, not less.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.

  • My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

    Mom   Daughter   Mother  
  • O Virgin most holy, none abounds in the knowledge of God except through thee; none, O Mother of God, obtains salvation except through thee, none receives a gift from the throne of mercy except through thee.

  • There is a mighty power in a mother's hand. There's more power in a woman's hand than there is in a king's scepter. And there is a mighty power in a mother's kiss — inspiration, courage, hope, ambition, in a mother's kiss.

    Mom   Mother   Kings  
    "Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ".
  • I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

    Mother   Children   Hate  
    Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June 1998.
  • I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.

    Mother   Husband   Kids  
  • [My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building; it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears popped. And all the women - the whole thing was so very Mad Men, very glamorous.

    Mother   Men   Mad  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • As the mother of six, Karen Santorum knows the power of stories to shape and mold the nature of our children. In Everyday Graces, Karen has complied a treasure chest of tales that helps us raise the next generation of children into adults of kind compassion. Everyday Graces is a must for families that desire their children to become people of character.

  • Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.

  • Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.

  • Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.

    Mother   Fall   Years  
    Jerry Spinelli (2008). “Eggs”
  • I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

  • I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child.

    Source: www.abilitymagazine.com
  • Nathan Sutter," the teacher read. Here. My mother never calls me Nathan." Is it Nate?" She calls me Honeylips.

    Brandon Mull (2014). “The Candy Shop War”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
  • I think, when I started to become successful in the movie business, my mother was very, very worried. She thought no one would want to marry me and she thought that was the most important thing. And she thought that it would affect my personal relations. And she said how worried she was that people would take advantage of me or I would meet the wrong people. When I was made head of the studio, one of her first things was, "Well, now no one will marry you. I hope you'll be happy, whatever."

    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

    Mother   Done   Villain  
    William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.514, Modern Library
  • My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

    Mom   Mother   Father  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I’d bet a month of dawn patrols those apprentices had something to do with it,” Birchfall meowed. “Why else would they disappear back to ShadowClan without their mother?” Dustpelt let out a snort of amusement. “I can just picture those three holding Blackstar down until he agreed.

    Mother   Dawn   Three  
  • People planted seeds into me. Older cats gave me the game. My family, especially my mother, gave me the game and I pass it on. That's what it's about. If somebody gives you mental jewelry and you wear it for so long, you want to give it to somebody else for them pass it on.

    Mother   Cat   Games  
    Source: www.mtv.com
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