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“Our mother's first gift to us comes at the moment we are born, because Mom, as she will subsequently remind us over and over, gives us the Gift of Life Like many of the gifts we receive from our mothers, the Gift of Life usually doesn't fit properly and is almost never returnable without a major hassle.”

Giving Firsts Moments Mother Born Mom Fit Majors Gifts Of Life Hassle

Author:Linda Sunshine

“After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.”

Mother Losing Discovering Losing Someone

Author:Nancy Hale

“I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.”

Mother Felt Fate Guilty

Author:Valerie Trierweiler

“We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely that the source of error is, as the advertisement says, a reflection of the fact that "its dangerous to trifle with Mother Nature".”

Doe Facts Mother Dangerous Source Reflection Responsible Errors Ethical Trifles Mother Nature Advertisements Lapses

Author:Lewis M. Branscomb

“My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.”

School Mother Teacher Survived Public School Virginia School Teachers Happy Family

Author:Dave Grohl

“My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.”

America Mother Opportunity Wish Promise Cradle

Author:Masiela Lusha

“While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.”

Children Feelings Mother Pages Organized This Day Strongest Associates Lullaby

Author:Masiela Lusha

“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.”

Needs Kids Mother Reading Powerful Streets Danger Mom Periods Female Ultimate Constant Competition Motherhood Magazines Olympics Mothering Good Mother Best Mother

Author:Susan J. Douglas

“I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.”

Writing Might Kids Mother Feet Danger Mom Dad Husband Daughter Crisis Managers Soccer Fund Conspiracy Rescue Thrillers About Family Cover Ups Sidelines Straight Up Hedge Fund Soccer Mom

Author:Andrew Gross

“a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.”

World Law Mother Praise Favors In-laws Mother In Law

Book:Lamb in His Bosom

Source: Lamb in His Bosom

“I liked fetching the washing from the Moscrops', and my mother liked washing for Mrs. Moscrop better than for anyone else. That was because Mrs. Moscrop wrapped a bar of yellow soap in with the washing. There wasn't anyone else who thought of a thing like that.”

Book Mother Bars Yellow Soap Washing

Book:My Son, My Son

Source: My Son, My Son

“like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.”

Mother Bones Scar Ireland Tissues Scar Tissue

Author:Jennifer Stone

“I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.”

Men Looks Soul Eye Mother Found Father Grows Youth Lovers Mouths Bones Flesh Tales My Soul Fairy Old Man Categories Fairy Tale Folds Cracked Fragmented

Author:Jennifer Stone

“Formal education in British India was remarkable for its lack of connection with its Indian environment. Like the African persuaded to cover his nakedness with a Mother Hubbard, we wore mental Mother Hubbards, and they were often a sad fit. Our textbooks had been compiled by Englishmen for English children, of whom there were none in my school and few in any school in India.”

Children School Mother Environment Fit Connections India British Indian Remarkable Formal Imperialism Englishmen Textbooks Formal Education

Book:From fear set free

Source: From fear set free

“My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.”

World Feels Persons Home Mother Source

Author:Daphne Merkin

“I hate skinny women, especially when they say things like 'Sometimes I forget to eat.' Now, I've forgotten my mother's maiden name, and my keys, but you've got to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat!”

Kind Sometimes Mother Hate Names Forget Special Stupid Keys Eating Weight I Hate Forgotten Skinny Maidens Maiden Names

Author:Marsha Warfield

“My mother taught me this trick: if you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning, for example homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework, see? Nothing. Our existence she said is the same way. You watch the sunset too often it just becomes 6 pm you make the same mistake over and over you stop calling it a mistake. If you just wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up one day you'll forget why.”

Ifs Way Said Mother Loses Forget Existence Mistake Watches Example Taught Calling One Day Wake Up Tricks Repeats Sunset Over You Routine Homework Sameness Monotony Same Mistakes Pms

Author:Phil Kay

“Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.”

Thinking I Can Facts Mother Accents Australian

Author:Lev Grossman

“It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that abusive men show their female partners and their daughters is often absorbed by their sons. So while a small number of abusive men do hate women, the great majority exhibit a more subtle-though often quite pervasive-sense of superiority or contempt toward females, and some don't show any obvious signs of problems with women at all until they are in a serious relationship.”

“Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death. Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.”

Self Stories Faces Mother Desire Virtue Failing Summer Aging Heat Warmth Preservation Self Preservation Loveliness

Author:N.D. Wilson

“When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the Golden Globes and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors doeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech.”

Littles Kids Together Used Mother Watches Speech Dresses Golden Get Up Apples Globes Little Kid Sparkling Trays Cider Apple Cider

Author:Lea Michele

“My mother was a very wise and strong person.”

Persons Mother Strong Wise Very Wise Strong Person

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she's happy and she's smiling down at me from heaven?' And that's what I try to go by and walk by.”

Knows Trying Mother Heaven Walks Proud Be Proud

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.”

Real Bigs Mother Grandmother About Yourself Momma Keeping It Real

Author:Martin Lawrence

“I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt... It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet.”

Made Mother Hurt Feet Blame Faults Shoes Pairs Prada

Author:Meryl Streep

“My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.”

School Mother Prayer Teacher Son Mom Praying My Mom Sunday School Teachers Sunday School Sunday School Teacher

Author:Steve Harvey

“You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.”

Knows Men Looks Beautiful Mother Growing Up Growing Dad My Dad Handsome Handsome Men

Author:Courteney Cox

“Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.”

Children Seems Mother

Author:Megan Fox

“My mother dressed me always very conservatively.”

Mother

Author:Selma Blair

“Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have children if they have any intention of leaving their side in their early years. . . . Children don't need parents' full-time attendance or attention at any stage of their development. Many people will help take care of their needs, depending on who their parents are and how they chose to fulfill their roles.”

People Ifs Needs Should Years Children Helping Care Today Mother Parent Sides Attention Roles Stage Development Intention Males Leaving Take Care Experts Attendance

Author:Stella Chess

“I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to wear them at home. We're talking about a different time period now, when the man was much more the ruler of the house. But I still feel that way, and neither my mother nor Maria is allowed to go out with me in pants.”

Men Way Feels Stills Different Home Mother Hate Father House Talking He Man Periods I Hate Pants Rulers Despised Different Times Time Periods

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.”

Long Mother Parent Grew Dad Grew Up Distance My Dad Drivers Long Distance Birmingham Barbados Catering Lorry

Author:David Harewood

“I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.”

Made Mother Father Stubbornness I Love My Mother

Author:Tracy Morgan

“My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.”

World Looks Mother Grows Lines Growing Up Emphasis

Author:Rachel McAdams

“To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.”

Way Want Feels Use Wanted Mother Artist Contribution

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I'm basically a natural blonde.”

People Knows Looks Kind Children Light Mother Natural Dark Hair Blonde

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'”

Ifs Mind I Can Wanted Mother Successful Female Empowerment Stronger Female Empowerment Of My Mind Being A Mother

Author:Nicki Minaj

“I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.”

Men Years Two Mother Lost Wonderful Son Mom Years Ago Cancer Two Years Greatest Gifts Grown Man Two Years Ago

Author:Carla Hall

“It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or the 'good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.”

Children Home Earth Used Lying Mother Girl Stuff Horrible Used To Be Pie Baking Good Girl Good Mother Bad Girl Bad Mother

Author:Annette Bening

“A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.”

Knows Men Children Doe Care Running Mother Father Parent Policy Deserve Sick Mad Hardship Episodes Workplace Days Off Mad Men Sick Children

Author:Barack Obama

“Every father says the same thing: “Where's your mother?””

Mother Father

Author:Bill Cosby

“I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.”

Men Kind Said Beautiful Faces Mother Battle Psychological Scar

Author:Nick Nolte

“I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.”

Mother Boys Video Mama Disrespect Mama's Boy

Author:Mr. T

“My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.”

Want Mother Strong Wonderful Want Me Wonderful Woman

Author:Mr. T

“As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.”

Want Persons Matter Moments Shows Today Mother Strong Community Four Taught Shapes Family Friends Single Mother

Author:Andie MacDowell

“My mother on her death bed told me, 'Where the hell did that kangaroo come from!?' - it just popped out of nowhere and punched her in the head and caused a cerebral hemorrhage, so I thought I'd move to a country where there were no kangaroos!”

Country Moving Mother Hell Bed Cerebral Death Bed Kangaroos

Author:Colin Mochrie

“The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.”

Want Humans Earth Mother Planets Living On Mother Earth

Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.”

Knows Mother Strong Mom Single Mom

Author:Regina King

“There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.”

Mother Mom Band Musician My Mom Insane Friendly Nuts Rebellious

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.”

Persons Sometimes Mother Father Parent Church Neighbor Ministers Gentleman Terrific

Author:Jane Pauley

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