Famous Quotes: Mother

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
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My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
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But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".
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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.
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My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.
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I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
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Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
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This is the strangest life I've ever known.
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I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
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