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“I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.”

Earth Mother Water Animal Company Taken Oil Damage Mother Earth Creeks Oil Companies

Author:Winona LaDuke

“Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.”

Needs Hard Earth Together Mother Water Feet Land Hard Work Protect Roots Court Wings Radio Commit Stations Covenant Mother Earth Descendants Radio Stations Fins Land And Water

Author:Winona LaDuke

“Many women assume they can't be good mothers and have challenging careers at the same time, so they might give up trying to do both as they get to a crucial point in their career. Although it can be hard at times, it's important for women to recognize the benefits of working outside the home.”

Giving Trying Important Hard Home Might Mother Challenges Careers Giving Up Benefits Assuming Work Out Be Good Crucial Good Mother

Author:Susan Wojcicki

“I'm just a regular mother who's trying to save lives and be the best human being I can be.”

Trying Humans I Can Mother Human Beings Being The Best Save A Life

Author:Cindy Sheehan

“To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for”

Lasts Mother Fighting Blood Land

Book:Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

Source: Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

“Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.”

“Sunday is the day I connect with Buenos Aires. I speak to or text my mother every day, but on Sunday I phone everyone.”

Mother Speak Phones Sunday Buenos Aires

Author:Elena Roger

“My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.”

Mother Father Married Determination Dignity Twenties Eight Loyalty Thirty Fierce Unyielding Steadiness

Author:Jill Lepore

“A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.”

Jobs Mother Manhood

Author:Michael Gurian

“I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.”

Mother Father Felt Race Jew Korean Mixed Race

Author:Gabrielle

“My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.”

Ifs Problem Mother Guy Community Masters Broken Dad Grades Mechanic Magician That Guy Our Community Carpenter Masons Plumber Eighth Grade Electrician Dirty Jobs

Author:Mike Rowe

“My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.”

Kids Mother Night Jokes Raised Dinner Cooks Servant Grandmother Sunday Eggs Soup My Grandmother Sunday Night Scrambled Eggs

Author:Katharine Weymouth

“I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.”

Has Beens Wanted Mother Blood Doctors Flight Substance Laboratory Doctor Who Banned

Author:Alberto Tomba

“Im not a mom, but I think the word mother is about wisdom.”

Thinking Mother Mom

Author:Margaret Cho

“Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought thats what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise.”

Way School Young Mother Girl Too Much Promise Let Me Pregnant Being A Mother Counselor

Author:Jenni Rivera

“And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.”

Looks Sometimes Mother Endurance Lovable Cranky

Author:Lisa Scottoline

“My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.”

Whole Mother Father House Mom My Mom Loud Affectionate

Author:Michael De Luca

“As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.”

World Children Persons Mother Taste Opposites Surroundings Glamour Epitome Turner

Author:Lee Radziwill

“In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?”

Should Children Care Mother Father Cases Taken Separation

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.”

Thinking Feels Should Children Mother Watches Materials Clothes Skins Sensuality Fabric Inviting

Author:Azzedine Alaia

“I talk to my kids about my mothers energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.”

Knows Kind Kids Mother Father Energy Parent Died Addiction Genuine Remembrance Polite

Author:Lemon Andersen

“As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.”

“The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.”

Firsts Made Book Mother Novel Ready Adults Decided Blue Impression Lasting Castles Lucy Lasting Impressions

Author:Hallie Ephron

“Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.”

Book Mother House Special Treats

Author:Hallie Ephron

“. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go.”

Giving Mother Turns Birth Letting Go Labor Rehearsal

Author:Susan Piver

“There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.”

Important Mother Father Names Leader Greater Parenthood

Author:Sheri L. Dew

“You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.”

Mother Father Born Crucial Righteous Mother And Father

Author:Sheri L. Dew

“My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.”

Light Wanted Mother Teacher Brother Dad Decided Army My Dad Traditional My Brother Unconditional Love Engineers Mum Unconditional Housewife Boxers

Author:Anthony Browne

“If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Mean Children Persons Stills Feelings Eye Mother Seeing Creator Giants Through The Eyes Seeing The World Eyes Of A Child Through The Eyes Of A Child

Author:Anais Nin

“Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and -- or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.”

Giving Children Mother Bits Birth Goodness Shock Curves Adjustment Syndromes Cerebral Cerebral Palsy

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.”

Ifs World Stills Whole Mother Father Rocks Okay Whole World Throwing Throwing Rocks

Author:Jojo Moyes

“The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”

Ifs Knows World Children Two Whole Mother Rocks Okay Whole World Throwing Rooted Throwing Rocks

Author:Jojo Moyes

“As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.”

Knows Mother Father Parent Born White Growing Up Growing Russia Germany Holocaust Nazi Nazi Germany Czars

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“Sex always has consequences. When Hitler's mother spread her legs that night, she effectively canceled out the spreading of fifteen to twenty million other pairs of legs.”

Mother Night Sex Millions Consequence Twenties Legs Spread Pairs Fifteen

Author:George Carlin

“I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.”

Years Moving Mother Father Forget Five Pieces Style Kings Chess Five Years Mates Hunting Trainers Five Year Olds Playing Chess

Author:Garry Kasparov

“My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?”

Years Lasts Mother Felt Died Cancer Last Year Helpless Economist Lungs Mother Died Lung Cancer

Author:Andrew Lo

“I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.”

Stories Kids Mother

Author:John D. Voelker

“A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated Mithras' primeval act. The initiate was baptized in its blood, partaking of its life-giving properties. It may be noted that this part of the ceremonial closely resembled the ritual of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother of Asia Minor, which had been brought to Rome three centuries before Christ.”

Giving May Mother Three Christ Blood Century Property Features Ritual Rome Minors Cult Asia Bulls Slaughter Initiate Baptized Great Mother Primeval Baptized In

Author:Ninian Smart

“Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.”

People Men Way Trying Mother Middle Raised My Way

Author:Donald Dunn

“I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?”

Mother Montana Hannah Montana

Author:Brooke Shields

“It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something - it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they've lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It really isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Should Seems Care Kids Used Mother Guy Lost Fun Loses Too Much Trouble Crazy Type Excuse Damn Yellow Gloves No Excuses Caring Too Much

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“For me, all mother in the world are my goddesses.”

World Mother Goddess

Author:Yoseob

“I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life. I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times - including my husband, my mother and my beloved son. Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate. Life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.”

“My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.”

Kind Mother Strong Mom My Mom Backbone

Author:Aerin Lauder

“Most Christians never associate joy with repentance. But repentance is actually the mother of all joy in Jesus. Without it, there can be no joy. Yet, any believer who walks in repentance will be flooded with the joy of the Lord.”

Christian Joy Mother Jesus Walks Lord Believer Repentance Associates

Author:David Wilkerson

“I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.”

Thinking Littles Bigs Might Mother Dies Parent Sound Talking Died Starting Albums Revelations Shock Mortality Mother Died

Author:Donald Fagen

“And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.”

Mother Animal Rich Environment Amount Plant Incredibles Manage Data Mother Nature Biodiversity Small Amounts Biosphere

Author:Freeman Dyson

“"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."”

Source: The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House

“The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.”

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."”

Ifs Wells Said Would Be Funny Mother Father Boys Son Humorous Aunt Well Said

Book:The Works of Charles Dickens

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens

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