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“Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.”

Giving Mother Born Months Give Me Saved Pounds Eighteen Auschwitz

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation”

Giving Mother Nations Birth Promise Give Me Educated Civilized

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.”

Thinking Giving Children Doe Book Mother Creativity Give Me Saved

Author:David Lynch

“For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.”

Giving Mother Worry Give Me Fancy New Mother

Author:Shirley Jackson

“in my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me (1) different (from her), and (2) guilty (about what I got). Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.”

Giving Different Mother Stuff Built Give Me Strive Guilty Comradeship

Author:Betty Rollin

“As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.”

“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.”

Giving Children Littles Mother Felt Audience Give Me My Children Cheated I Cheated Love My Children

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Without my women friends, I wouldn't know anything. They've been my teachers and my mothers. My mother was a wonderful person, but she didn't give me a lot of the stuff I needed to advance myself as an adult woman. I have a really strong group of girlfriends, and we share a lot with one another - the complications of raising children, marriages, personal and physical struggles.”

Knows Giving Children Persons Mother Strong Stuff Struggle Teacher Wonderful Groups Share Needed Adults Give Me Girlfriend Raising Children Complication Wonderful Person

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.”

Giving Country Mother Father Chance Give Me Grateful Mother And Father

Author:Kirk Douglas

“I think the relationship between mother and daughter is so interesting, even in a semi-normal family. Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke's family relationship is going to be so interesting to explore. It is going to give me so many places to go. Obviously, it has been said that she is not the most stable of characters. What is interesting about that, when you think about mental health, is that young women will often come into those problems and difficulties in their 20's, so it is very possible that this will start to affect her psyche.”

“When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.”

Giving Home Bigs Running Mother Happened Doors Daughter Give Me My Dad My Daughter Coming Home Hug Daughter To Father Love My Daughter I Love My Daughter Beautiful Daughter

Author:Hugh Jackman

“When my mother would make me sandwiches for school - zucchini and eggs, pepper and eggs, everything was with eggs - the oil would drip out of the bag. She didn't care if I lost the sandwich - she wanted that brown bag back. She used to give me artichoke sandwiches. You have no idea how embarrassing it is to sit in the schoolyard eating an artichoke with a piece of bread. A lot of kids didn't know what it was, they'd say, Look at that guy eating flowers!”

Ifs Knows Giving Looks Ideas Care Kids Wanted School Used Mother Guy Lost Pieces Flower Eating Give Me Oil Bread No Idea Brown Bags Eggs Embarrassing Sandwiches That Guy Peppers Artichokes Zucchini

Author:Pat Cooper

“My mother and father took me in and provided everything for me - the love, nurturing, basic necessities - to give me the space to grow wings, so that when I went out into the world, I could fly.”

World Giving Mother Father Grows Space Give Me Wings Nurturing Mother And Father

Author:Michael Franti

“One of my brothers in my adopted family converted to Islam and I love him with all my heart. I have Muslim women who understand my pain and they give me lots of love and support. But what Black Americans never think about is that the African version of Islam is totally different from American Islam. They've never seen mothers doused in gasoline and set on fire for ’religious' reasons. So they don't know what I'm talking about.”

Thinking Knows Giving Heart Different Reason Pain Mother Black Religious Talking Support Fire Brother My Heart Give Me Islam Versions My Brother Adopted I Love Him Gasoline Muslim Women

Author:Kola Boof

“One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?”

Men Giving Mother Night Girl Five One Thing He Man Give Me Delight Awake Grandmother Girl Power Hope For The Future Great Hope Awake At Night

Author:Queen Noor of Jordan

“I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were able to give me that are very special.”

Giving Feels Able Mother Father Childhood Special Give Me Grateful Mother And Father So Grateful Happy Childhood

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“For my 21st birthday, I think my mother wanted to give me a watch, or something, you know, some kind of traditional thing. And I said, "Well, if you're going to buy me something, there's a Gibson Melody Maker guitar advertised in the paper for 60 dollars. Do you think I could have that?" And I think that she was very disappointed that at 21 I was still messing around with that sort of thing. She didn't understand what it was all about. But now she understands it, and likes it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Wells Kind Said Stills Wanted Mother Watches Paper Give Me Dollars Guitar Likes Traditional Melody Makers Disappointed 21st Birthday

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I see a bride, it gives me a rash. I find them ghoulish, almost.”

Thinking Giving Said Sometimes Mother Girl Married India Give Me Brides

Author:Arundhati Roy

“You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.”

People Ifs Want Giving Children Would Be Mother Flower Give Me Our Children Guilt Chocolate

Author:Anne Lamott

“For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.”

Giving Years Littles Used Mother Give Me Each Day Blank Diaries Horoscopes

Author:Patti Smith

“Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back”

Giving Looks Today Mother Culture Okay Give Me Dylan Hiv Clash

Author:Sonya Sones

“St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She wanted to be a nun. She hoped I would be a priest and saved to give me an education while my friends plaited rope and trailed after the plough. I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? She says he can. Then he should.”

Giving Should Heart Said Stills I Can Would Be Wanted Mother Passion Voice Taught My Heart My Friends Give Me Saved Loud Priests Not Interested Virgins Rope Riot Nun Small Voice

Book:The Passion

Source: The Passion

“Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.”

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“Well, thanks. It was nice of you to give me anything." The tension between them seemed to press down on her like humid air. "Better than a bath in spaghetti any day." He said darkly, "If you share that little bit of personal information with anyone, I may have to kill you." "Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside the dryer with the clothes," Clary said. "The difference is, she didn't let me." "Probably because going around and around inside a dryer can be fatal," Jace pointed out, "whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the rest of my life, but I certainly don't want to be a housewife right now. And I really don't want to be married to someone who gives me ultimatums. And maybe Joe needs to examine what he wants from a wife. He was raised in a traditional Italian household with a stay-at-home mother and domineering father. If he wants a wife who will fit into that mold, I'm not for him. I might be a stay-at-home mother someday, but I'll always be trying to fly off the garage roof. That's just who I am.”

“In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.”

Giving Past Mother Father Hours Half Give Me My Past Half Hours

Book:Vanishing Acts

Source: Vanishing Acts

“I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I think about him now. It is only natural. I am glad, suddenly, that I shot Eric in the foot instead of the head.”

Thinking Giving Long Has Beens Mother Water Natural Feet Baby Long Time Shots Give Me Clean Breathe Wounds Glad Eric Submerged

Author:Veronica Roth

“Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name - total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.”

Giving Stills Real Mother Names Hours Boys New York Mom Balance Give Me Studios Motherhood London Miles Hanging Out Chill Rasta

Author:Gwen Stefani

“She was this incredible mom. With each of her kids, she did something called `time,' where she would spend an hour each day doing whatever the kid wanted to do, whether it was play spacemen or `Let's go into your makeup, and I'll make you up like a clown.' And as a teenager you'd be like, `Rub me, Mom. Give me a massage.'”

Giving Play Kids Wanted Mother Hours Mom Give Me Incredibles Motherhood Teenager Each Day Makeup Clown Massage

Author:Jeff Bridges

“Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.”

Giving Children Mother Father Parent Born Boys Teacher Dad Angel Give Me Fortune Saint Guides Cooks Servant Nurse

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.”