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“When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.”

Young Mother Sound Laughing Heard

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future.”

Earth Past Mother Father Supplies Mother And Father Past Present Past Present And Future Kuwait

Author:Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

“We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies”

Mother Father Enemy Protect Shields Sibling Kuwait

Author:Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

“Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.”

Children Mother House Hours Heard Calling Bases Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.”

Way Mother Father Fashion Opposites Liberation Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'”

Ifs Children Littles Important Helping Might Mother Girl Asks Pleasure Clear Teacher Messages Busy Bother Puzzles Frustrating Request Important Work

Author:Daniel Goleman

“Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it.”

Want Trying Self Mother Father Energy Figures Buddhism Type Discovery Self Discovery Rama Drains Father Figure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.”

“Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true”

Mother Asks Football Managers Soccer Kill Me Chairman Squad

Author:Claudio Ranieri

“But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!”

Wanted Mother Sports Waiting Minutes Coaches Get Up Breakfast Convincing Skating

Author:Nancy Kerrigan

“I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.”

Ifs I Can Mother Wish Felt Rooms Benefits Empty Performances Performers Teresa Hospice Empty Rooms

Author:Bea Arthur

“My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Lasts Mother Behavior Rational Last Year

Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.”

Kind Mother Independent Agents Contracts Mgm

Author:Lorna Luft

“My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!”

Ifs Happens Mother Certain Turns Danger Blue Boxes Steam Stoves

Author:Paul Prudhomme

“I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.”

Today Mother Given Hero Grateful My Hero Precious Gifts

Author:Steven Cojocaru

“My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.”

Dream Mother Girl Strong Dark My Family Laughed Very Strong Continents Strong Women

Author:Jane Goodall

“And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.”

Play Used Mother Fighting Hurt Economy Streets Inevitable Brooklyn Save Me

Author:Sanford I. Weill

“Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.”

Men Mother Wife Atheism Tools Positive Atheism Manage Priests Maids

Author:Robert Browning

“I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'”

Ifs Men Years Mean Has Beens Said Jobs Mother Literature Gone College Summer Old Man Flash Juniors August Junior Year

Author:Chris Matthews

“The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.”

Children Christian Mother Atheism Thousand Eating Consequence Died Twenties Killing Hunger Positive Atheism Locals Thirty Nicaragua Maize

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher seemed to entitle him to more than mortal honors. A legend into the authenticity of which we will abstain from inquiring, asserted that his mother, Perictione, a pure virgin, suffered an immaculate conception through the influence of Apollo. The god declared to Ariston, to whom she was about to be married, the parentage of the child.”

Source: History of the Intellectual Development of Europe

“Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our animal friends. When you do that you are aware of the sacrifice that someone is making so that you may live. My mother always made sure we were thankful for those precious gifts.”

May Made Form Mother Animal Poor Growing Up Growing Sacrifice Atheism Taught Positive Atheism Farms Reverence Precious Gifts Animal Friends

Author:Roger Fouts

“One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.”

Men Mother Race Mistake Atheism Originals Positive Atheism Accepted Servant

Book:His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

“Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.”

People Mother Doors Positive Thinking Mom Devil My Mom Surround Disrespect Surround Yourself Positive People Surround Yourself With Positive People

Author:Cuba Gooding, Jr.

“Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.”

Way Body Running School Mother Fall Sports Morning Sun Brother Spring Winter Athlete Breakfast Every Morning Brothers And Sisters Alabama

Book:Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?”

Mother Father Appreciate Distance Parenting Expected Criticize Hook Appreciated Our Father Long Distance Closeness

Book:At Large

Source: At Large

“If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.”

Ifs World Giving Mind Long Mother Names Sea Atheism Decided Rounds Careful Positive Atheism Superstitions Corn Liquor Bacchus Neptune Round World

Author:Lucretius

“These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go to Africa for the pious purpose of kidnapping negroes, the mother would cry out to her children "run, run, the christians are coming," so when ever you hear "bibles," run for your life, if you do not want your pockets picked, or to be insulted and slandered as I was... and if you hear "hopeful conversions" or the "gospel," don't stop to look behind you.”

People Ifs Want Looks Children Running Christian Mother Purpose Behinds Atheism Cry Positive Atheism Conversion Hopeful Pockets Missionary Schemes Calamity Behind You Pious Insulted Kidnapping

Author:Anne Royall

“What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.”

Should Wells Doe Made Mother Hell Heard Atheism Infinite Cruelty Everlasting Brutes Infinite Love

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.”

Kind Able Mother Felt Doubt Wife Youth Source Bears Sorrow Tests Misery Hearing Faithful No Doubt Unhappiness Deceiving Polygamy Faithful Wife

Author:Orson F. Whitney

“I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her teens he insisted on marrying her also, having first by some means won her affections. The mother, however, was much opposed to this marriage, and finally gave up her husband entirely to her daughter; and to this very day the daughter bears children to her stepfather, living as wife in the same house with her mother!”

Knows Men Firsts Mean Children Mother Girl House Wife Bears Husband Married Daughter Affection Teens Another Man Gave Up Widows Marrying Polygamy Stepfathers Marrying Her

Author:T. B. H. Stenhouse

“In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.”

Political Mother Politics India South France Parks Florida Arcs Nightingales Teresa Rosa Florence Crimea Florence Nightingale

Author:Larry Gatlin

“The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.”

Helping Mother Parent Memories Morning Tree Dad Eating Spending Sunday Toasts Your Dad Christmas Tree Decorating Sunday Morning Popeye French Toast

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.”

Mother Birth Tests Abortion Injury Exception

Author:John F. Kerry

“I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.”

Said Kids Mother Fighting Let Me Aggressive Household

Author:Mike Tyson

“I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother's surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.”

Mother Father Parent Attitude Worst Complaining Concentration Pills Whining Surly Amorality

Author:Woody Allen

“I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training.”

Mother Fighting Found Father Serious Training Fighter Dedicated

Author:Mike Tyson

“The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.”

People World Whole Might Mother Poor Rich Whole World Symbols Poor People Rich People Cannibalism

Author:Tupac Shakur

“With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.”

Firsts Children Two Mother Saws Exercise First Time Program My Family Doctors Weight Meetings Size Portions Peers Counseling Burgers Watchers Weight Watchers Portion Sizes

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.”

Children Hard Life Is Mother Father Opportunity Knowing Noble Heroic

Author:Kevin Costner

“My comedic instinct, is a little bit more rooted in - my mother's British so I've always been more of the dry receiver of the crazy as opposed to the initiator of the crazy. I'm kind of predisposed to be the straight man.”

Men Kind Littles Mother Bits Crazy Little Bit Instinct British Dry Rooted Comedic Receiver

Author:Jason Bateman

“What I like about all these giant superhero movies is that they speak to the issues that I'm dealing with - working mother and time management and how to be an interesting, sexual, curious woman in your 40s.”

Mother Speak Interesting Issues Management Curious Giants Time Management Superhero

Author:Amy Poehler

“One thing I have is that I have never been afraid to expose myself in a way, and I really think I got that from my mother. That's a great gift you can give to a child, that they have confidence in their abilities.”

Thinking Way Giving Children Mother Ability One Thing Have Confidence Great Gifts

Author:John Turturro

“I can't pass a puppy, a kid or a baby without stopping. It's really annoying to every boyfriend I've ever head. My mother will roll her eyes and go, "God, really?!" But, I find children funny and great, and I love them.”

Children I Can Eye Kids Mother Baby Annoying Her Eyes Stopping Puppy

Author:Minnie Driver

“I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.”

Thinking World Want Humans Stills Important Hard Use Wanted Mother Choices Fighting Easy Human Beings Taken Talent Understood Feminist Grandmother My Grandmother Reservations

Author:Erica Jong

“It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.”

Thinking Knows World Children Art School Mother Girl Break Know How Honest Talent Waste Block Painter Prize Break Through Art School Having Children

Author:Erica Jong

“The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you, all of it - the murderer, the great mother, the therapist, the husband. Everything is inside of us.”

Mother Acting Husband Murderer Therapists Great Mother

Author:Jane Lynch

“I wanted to make sure that I did one movie in my career that mothers hug me for.”

Wanted Mother Careers Hug Hug Me

Author:Adam Sandler

“I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore," and I went, "Oh, okay," and I gave away what, of course, would now be thousands of dollars worth of comics to the neighborhood kids.”

Wells Said Kids School Mother Courses High School Okay Dollars Teenager Neighborhood

Author:Trina Robbins

“The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.”

Important Mother Passion All Things Activist Being A Mother Great Passion

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

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