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“Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.”

Author:Jill Abramson

“Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.”

Christian Mother Deals Taught Praying Orthodox Devoted

Author:Dominique Moceanu

“My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.”

Men Mother Father Cold Old Man Abusive

Author:S. E. Hinton

“My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.”

Knows Children Bigs Together Mother Adults Cousin Hong Kong Only Child Big Families Shanghai

Author:Wong Kar-wai

“I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.”

People Thinking Believe Lasts Mother Father Names Language White Hispanic Caucasian

Author:George Zimmerman

“So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.”

Mother Father Names Grew Couple Mets Married Grew Up Moved Adopted Boston Elderly Maine Orphanage

Author:George J. Mitchell

“Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.”

Self Mother Culture Demand Expectations Complicated Internals Being A Mother

Author:Siri Hustvedt

“My mother and I are very close; I guess you would call us best friends.”

Mother

Author:Susan Ford

“Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.”

Seems Together Mother Winning Lost Causes Taken Battle Achievement Criticism Conversion Accused Defenseless Teresa Lost Cause

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.”

Two Remember Young Mother Opinion Path Childhood Red Indian Freak Lawns Nun Teresa Gravel Tow Sari

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.”

Men Mother Turns Grows Growing Up Trouble

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.”

Men Believe Mother Can Do Challenges Convince Employers Legislators

Author:Karen DeCrow

“My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.”

Country Mother Father Sides Musician Western Singers Both Sides Bluegrass Country Western

Author:Brandi Carlile

“My mother was a great advocate of womens rights, a member of the League of Womens Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a womans rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.”

States Mother Causes Term Common Issues Rights Members League Voters Parenthood Womens Rights Founding Lifelong Indiana Planned Parenthood

Author:Kathryn Lasky

“I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.”

Kind Home Running Wanted School Mother Order Father Social Musician Smart Doctors Workers Expected Lawyer Disappointed Running Away Academic Social Worker Away From Home Inspectors

Author:Hugh Masekela

“For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.”

Persons I Can Real Might Mother Universe Energy Strong Particular Connections Dancing Riding Connecting Surfing Pulse Mother Nature Surf

Author:Xavier Rudd

“Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.”

Mother Lost Waiting Opinion Lows Cancer Priorities Scare Dirt Cleaning Cleaning Up Lost Hope Failed Marriage

Book:Local Girls

Source: Local Girls

“I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.”

Knows Looks Persons Enough Hands Mother Water Taught Needed Fit Bowls Palms

Book:Incantation

Source: Incantation

“Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.”

Believe Hard Mother Believe In Me

Book:A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it.”

Mother Passion Fashion

Author:Francisco Costa

“O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.”

Humans Art Mother Virtue Noble Laziness Anguish

Book:The Right To Be Lazy

Source: The Right To Be Lazy

“We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.”

Heart Mother Father Teacher Industry Roots West Managers Australia Wool

Author:Quentin Bryce

“I'm a mother, and my life is very full.”

Life Is Mother

Author:Sheherazade Goldsmith

“When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and Ive done so ever since.”

Done Lying Mother Night Father Died Crisis Rounds Kitchen Funeral My Sister Organised Undertaker Mother Died

Author:Stuart Rose

“I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.”

Littles Made Stills Mother Names Bags Lunch Kindergarten Towels

Author:Maira Kalman

“I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.”

Children Mother Goes On Bird Winter Nine Obliged Nests

Author:Melville Fuller

“I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.”

Thinking Children Mother Example Eating Your Children Disorder Balanced Eating Disorder

Author:Geri Halliwell

“I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.”

I Can Play Mother Daughter Beach My Daughter Favourite Chill Listening To Music Chilling Out Favourite Places

Author:Geri Halliwell

“We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.”

“Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.”

Want Mother Inspiring Mum Mothers Day Victoria

Author:Geri Halliwell

“John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the survival of its community. I think of my family stories-Mother's in particular-how much I need them now, how much I will need them later. It has been said when an individual dies, whole worlds die with them. The same could be said of each passing whale.”

Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

“The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.”

Earth Mother Tombs Romeo And Juliet Play

Book:Romeo and Juliet ...

Source: Romeo and Juliet ...

“My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.”

Knows Men Needs Hard Mother Taught Humour Hard Work Dad My Dad Decent Decent Man Headmasters

Author:James Nesbitt

“Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.”

Long Mother Arms Kings Horse Grandfather Syria Pointing My Grandfather Once Upon A Time Downtown Posh

Author:Mona Simpson

“The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.”

Men Firsts Persons Lasts Mother Names He Man Ice Managers Shops Boss Cream Ice Cream First Person

Author:Mona Simpson

“My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.”

Mother Parent Company Teach Speech Victim Income Hospitals Strokes Percentages Therapists Single Parent

Author:Mona Simpson

“Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.”

People Moments Hands Eye Form Mother Found Father Voice Doors Car Hair Add Rose Miles Chairs That Moment Bent Old People Mother And Father

Author:Louise Erdrich

“My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape.”

Children Mother Effort Garden Rivers Originals Excited Landscape My Children Restoration Gems Capes

Author:Louis Bacon

“When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?”

Doe Mother Dies Father Dangerous Mountain Judgment Climbs Mourn

Author:Susan Estrich

“I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.”

Way Want Mother Secret Conversation Norwegians

Author:Alexander Hanson

“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.”

Thinking Mind Children Book Mother Reading Creativity Effects Storytelling Granny

Book:Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa

Source: Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa

“When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.”

Years Hard Mother Struggle Dying Tough Cancer Albums

Author:Lil' Mama

“Remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head. Not paying taxes is against the law. If you don't pay your taxes, you'll be fined. If you don't pay the fine, you'll be jailed. If you try to escape from jail, you'll be shot. ... Therefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, 'Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?'”

Ifs Trying Government Remember Law Mother Asks Results Pay Fine Taxes Gun Shots Jail Gray Revenue Paying Taxes

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.”

Way Children Mother Regret Average My Children

Author:Kelly Corrigan

“My first favourite book was Are You My Mother? A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.”

Firsts Book Mother Lost Changed Bird Treasure Chocolate Factories Favourite Librarian Charlie Picture Books Favourite Book Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

Author:Rick Yancey

“When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.”

Firsts Kind Book Mother Reading Sides Middle Summer Adults Library Lists Bored Grades Copies Frustrated Midnight Summer Reading

Author:Lauren DeStefano

“Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.”

Looks Mother Father Interest Careers Grew Grew Up Guides Grounded Mother And Father

Author:Larenz Tate

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