Famous Quotes: Mother

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.
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My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
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I am no mother, and I won't be one.
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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
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My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
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There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.
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We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.
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I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
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Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.
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The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
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Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!
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Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
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I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.
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