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Source: The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems

“Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.”

Mother Noses Wipe

Book:The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...

Source: The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...

“If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.”

Ifs Mother Daughter Ovens

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.”

Mother Names Steps Heed Step Mother

Author:George Herbert

“When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like Madea, and Night, Mother, and Sam Shepard, and all that kind of stuff. Thats what I really wanted to do.”

Kind Wanted Mother Night Stuff Goal Stage New York College Moved Actresses Dramatic Mother Night Madea

Author:Rachael Harris

“I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. Theyve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.”

People Thinking Giving Two Hard Mother Father Goal Taught Brother Hard Work Raised Definitions My Brother Brothers And Sisters Mother And Father

Author:Josie Loren

“I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out.”

Mother Skins Soap

Author:Raquel Welch

“My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.”

Mother Reading Dad My Dad Performers Frustrated Nicholson

Author:Michael Sheen

“I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.”

Mother Wonderful Emotional Wonderful Lady

Author:Alicia Keys

“My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.”

Ifs Children Jobs Mother Can Do Lines Half Wise Intelligent Very Happy Very Wise

Author:Brandon Lee

“Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.”

Firsts Might Moving Law Mother House Force White Months Tests Barack White House Hostile In-laws Biden Mother In Law

Author:Jay Leno

“My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.”

Ifs Firsts Character Kids Jobs Faces Mother Voice Careers Too Much Boxes Actresses Video Cartoon Cartoon Character

Author:Joan Cusack

“My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.”

Believe Mean Mother Animal Dog Taught Grew Grew Up Cat Fishes Consideration Rats Snakes Spiders Wildlife Deserving Taught Us Cat And Dog

Author:Joanna Lumley

“That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: Use your eyes! Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.”

Firsts Littles Use Eye Able Mother Bits Voice Challenges Acting Taught Little Bit Aspect My Family Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Keith Coogan

“For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mothers maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.”

Years Mother Next Names Gone Reverence Grandfather Next Year My Grandfather Maidens Keith Maiden Names Headshots

Author:Keith Coogan

“You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.”

Thinking Persons Kids Together Mother Attention And Love Insane Abandonment Psychologist Insane Person Attention And Love

Author:Eric Idle

“When my mother passed away I was 20.”

Mother Passed Away Mother Passed Away

Author:Deborah Norville

“People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.”

People Knows Done Mother Father Born Dad Mets Singing Research Europe Moved Raised My Dad Italian Rome Opera Alabama Denmark Copenhagen

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.”

People Looks Mother Growing Up Growing Access Pretty Things

Author:Bette Midler

“I once worked with Emma Thompsons mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with.”

Law Mother Drama Emma

Author:Thomas Brodie-Sangster

“My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.”

Kids Mother Courses New York Theater Uncles Aunt Nun Aunts And Uncles Irish Family

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.”

Enough Mother Daughter Perfection Strive Good Enough Typical Mother Daughter Mother Daughter Relationship Striving For Perfection Never Good Enough

Author:Dorothy Hamill

“I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.”

Mother Father Born Son California Immigrants Mexico Mexican

Author:Michael Trevino

“My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as wee one.”

Children Mother Names Known Brother Calling Understood Died My Brother Grandparent Exotic Granny Damon

Author:Natascha McElhone

“When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights.”

Young Used Mother Fighting Ears Let Me

Author:Kelly Hu

“I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. I didn't cause my son any pain. But I did bring to my life some of my father, who was very controlling and very remote. I was working a lot. I wasn't there enough.”

Ifs Feels Stills Enough Mother Break Good Enough

Author:Mary Tyler Moore

“I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.”

Hard Mother Father Picks Raised

Author:Joely Fisher

“My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.”

People Firsts Hard Mother Father Stars Parent Company Player Hard Work Integrity International Nba Secretary Nba Player All Stars

Author:Brian J. White

“I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.”

Thinking Has Beens Might Mother Obsessed Might Have Been Barbie

Author:Michael Kors

“My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.”

Young Mother Mom Models My Mom Young Mother

Author:Michael Kors

“My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.”

Self Done Kids Mother Can Do Raises Self Worth Neglect

Author:Lea Thompson

“The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.”

Ifs Want Firsts Said Jobs Mother Actors Father Rejection Instruction Auditions

Author:Michele Lee

“I think I was raised by a really good mother.”

Thinking Mother Raised Good Mother

Author:Dean Winters

“Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.”

People Ifs Want Needs Young Mother Edges

Author:Dawn French

“I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.”

Children Mother Adopting Single Mother

Author:Diana Ross

“My child has done nothing wrong apart from being born to a mother like me”

Children Done Mother Born Like Me My Children

Author:Kim Soo-hyun

“When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Dont separate your life, the life that youre going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'”

Want Children Said Mother Found What You Want Pregnant Were Pregnant

Author:Neneh Cherry

“I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt, who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and a few others.”

People Used Mother Church Records Blind Take Me Aunt Johnson Lemons Gospel Music

Author:B. B. King

“I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mothers married friends and think, Why does she put him down in public? or, Why is he so rude to her? It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.”

Thinking Doe Mother Watches Couple Married Raised Partnership Rude Supportive Single Mother

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.”

Love Funny Mother Careers Four Groups Majors Humorous Guilt Witty Secret Love Food Love

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.”

Hard Jobs Mother Hate I Hate Our Family Hospitals Factories Housewife Part Time Always Working Working Really Hard

Author:Kelly Reilly

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