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“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.”

Mother Names Sea Land New York Fame Conquer Greek Flames Giants Sunset Gates Yearning Lightning Limbs Exile Wretched Torches Brazen Statue Of Liberty Colossus

Author:Emma Lazarus

“Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, "Mamma, mamma." You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc., If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.”

States Mother Careers Wife Fame Female Beloved Ties Prize Obscure Beloved Wife

Author:Jane Porter

“Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. If one is recognized everywhere, one begins to feel like Medusa. People stop their normal life and actions and freeze into staring manikins. "We can never catch people or life unawares," as I wrote to my mother, in an outburst of frustration. "It is always looking at us."”

People Ifs Feels Kind Persons Eye Action Mother Fame Normal Staring Frustration Freeze Normal Life Public Eye Outburst Medusa

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I feel a responsibility to myself and my parents and the people whose love has gotten me this far - people who were in my life before fame. That's where I get my sense of self. It's deadly for anyone to take on that role of a deity; it's not sustainable. I've got tons of flaws. Call my mother - she'll tell you! She keeps it real. Sometimes you don't want to hear the truth; she'll tell it to you out of love.”

People Want Feels Real Self Sometimes Mother Parent Responsibility Roles Fame Flaws Deities Sense Of Self Keeping It Real

Author:Lupita Nyong'o

“You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.”

Inspirational Children Mother Heard Fame Humorous Parenting Motherhood Being Famous Mother And Son Mother Son

Author:Jay Leno

“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”

“Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame.”

World Kind Littles Mother Girl Names Waiting President Boys Streets Fame Mountain Training Eternity Army Halls Egypt Potatoes Moses Emperor Being A Mother Sweeping Hall Of Fame

Author:Billy Sunday

“The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters”

Humans Mother Father Human Beings Too Much Son Lovers Fame Husband Daughter Weakness Greed Betrayal Disappointed Father Son Mother Daughter Pitiful Falseness Money And Fame

Author:Mario Puzo

“Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.”

Mother Father Honesty Fame Daughter My Daughter Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Daughter To Father

Book:My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)

Source: My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)

“There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world”

World Helping Hands Remember Mother Heaven Inspiring Rocks Creation Mom Ought Fame Unique Halls Pearls Mothers Day Mama Cradle Being A Mother Hall Of Fame

Author:Glen Campbell

“I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.”

Knows Way Shows Reality Mother Parent Television Fame Benefits Daughter Racing Television Shows Reality Television

Author:Molly Ringwald

“I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.”

Mother Wife Fame Daughter Our Daughter Happy Wife

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.”

Knows Mother Differences Fame Teresa

Author:Erma Bombeck

“In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.”

Mother Dies Names Youth Fame England Revenge Thee Household

Book:Henry VI, Part One

Source: Henry VI, Part One