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Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens

“Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people - mothers, children, babies, civilians - lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary policies enacted by the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria. It's this charge that's dominated the book's Nigerian press, so far as I can see, the accusation, on the one hand, that Awolowo hatched "a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation - eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations.”

“I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.”

Knows Years Reason Feelings Wanted School Remember Faces Mother Father Parent Security My Friends Classic Ashamed Typical

Author:Kurt Cobain

“My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.”

Humans Has Beens Mother Human Beings Advantage Doctors Oxford Undergraduate Women's Education

Author:Antonia Fraser

“Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.”

Mother Poverty Crime Code Welfare

Book:Lessons for Our Struggle

Source: Lessons for Our Struggle

“Yesterday evening I received a call that a person had located a body and the investigators from SDSD Homicide Division described our beloved mother, Sally Estabrook. Thank you all for your prayers, your good thoughts, and positive vibes.”

Persons Body Mother Prayer Yesterday Evening Beloved Division Our Prayers Good Thoughts Homicide Investigators Vibes Positive Vibes Beloved Mother

Author:Dave Mustaine

“I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.”

People Thinking Knows Years Happens Kids Mother Father Parent Understanding Rights Separation Whatever Happens

Author:Dwyane Wade

“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”

“I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.”

Mother Enemy Forever Childhood Garden Moses

Author:Anita Diament

“I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.”

Should Law Mother Given Pleasure Brain Good Day In-laws Recollection Mother In Law

Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

“My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.”

Wanted Mother Heaven Stars Walks Stage Regret London Agents

Author:Bruce Forsyth

“The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.”

Mother Extraordinary Modest Extraordinary Things Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.”

Believe Two Mother Turns Careers Teaching Raised My Sister Nursing Gowns

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, regardless of how he feels, how hard he tries, or whether he is a good guy. Almost by definition, he has become de-fathered.”

Men Feels Trying Children Doe Hard Mother Guy Definitions Fatherhood Good Guy

Author:David Blankenhorn

“Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it.”

World Use Dream Earth Mother Born Imagine Plans Risk Products Cancer Available Imagine That Delivery Storage

Author:Frank Oski

“Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to the next edition. 'Mother was right.' Author: Mrs. Bartlett, world-renowned nag. Year: 1859. Attribution: A short play entitled Every Goddamn Weekend!”

World Should Years Play Mother Next Nice Becoming Add Clever Familiar Honey Weekend Entitled Quotations Renowned Attribution World Renowned

Author:John Bartlett

“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.”

Thinking Stories Dream Remember Mother Song Dies Born Sleep Growing Broken Bed Shadow Roots Healed Old Song Sleep And Dream Broken Images

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Made Said Stills Running Wanted Mother Night Hurt Broken Fine Injury Toes Lap I Was Hurt

Author:Ronda Rousey

“The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.”

Thinking Mother Inaction

Author:Iimani David

“I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'”

People Earth Mother Enjoy Talking Incredibles Complaining Pregnant Being Pregnant

Author:Gwen Stefani

“One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.”

Mother Daughter My Daughter Greatest Gifts Your Daughter Love My Daughter I Love My Daughter

Author:Ace Frehley

“I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.”

Shows Kids Earth Mother Music Streets Honest Dad Kissing Daughter My Friends Being Honest My Daughter Buzz

Author:Ace Frehley

“I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.”

Knows Children Book Mother Names Talking Adults Kingdoms

Author:Enid Blyton

“Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.”

Way Years Sometimes Mother Wife Heard Criticism Males Complaining Worried Colleagues Reservations

Author:Jill Abramson

“Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.”

Should Mother Courses Grief Darkness Impossible Possibility Deny Grieving Rebirth Transforming Radiant Old Life

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Before I had a son, I used to look at my father's example: he left me, he left my mother. When I had a son, I got caught in the same situation that his mother don't want me to see him. I started looking at my father in a different light.”

Want Looks Different Light Used Mother Father Left Situation Example Son Caught Want Me He Left Me

Author:French Montana

“I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Might Able Mother Father Forget Brother Treats Forgiving Honestly Treated Adversaries Grudge Older Brother

Author:Monte Irvin

“Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.”

Men Children Body Spiritual Spirit Mother Grows Journey Creation Divine Intelligent Mysterious Beloved Loved Ones Morrow Spiritual Journey

Book:Montessori's Own Handbook

Source: Montessori's Own Handbook

“It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.”

Way Mother Sea Brother Wind Window Regard Noise My Brother Fashionable Chimes

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.”

Writing Past Mother Realizing Son Recalls

Book:Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

Source: Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

“Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.”

Made Said Real Mother Black Justice Audience Talent Hollywood Musical Offensive Stereotype All Black Real Talent

Book:The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

Source: The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

“Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.”

Mother Parent Bless God Bless

Author:William Herndon

“Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.”

People Thinking Enough Young Mother Speak Sex Love Making Away From Love

Author:Madame de La Fayette

“My mother and father were interested in the arts.”

Art Mother Father Mother And Father

Author:Ken Adam

“I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.”

Mother Speak Language Wish Grew Grew Up Spokes Italian Portuguese Spanish And English Speaking Spanish

Author:Sebastian Arcelus

“I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.”

Men Firsts Facts Home Mother Father Generations Grew Married Grew Up Latin Italian Latin America Latin American

Author:Sebastian Arcelus

“My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.”

World Age Young Mother Class Childhood College Degrees Theatre Exposed Young Age College Degree Playwriting

Author:Valorie Curry

“When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.”

Years Mother Four Four Years Bronx Tenements

Author:Cy Coleman

“I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent.”

Years Mother New York Taught Summer Southern Accents Broadway Modeling Southern Accent

Author:Nikki DeLoach

“I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that.”

Mind Believe I Can Would Be Running Remember Mother House Sound Wife Sick Shoes Tales Mind Control Old Wives Tales

Author:Eileen Davidson

“God hears a mother's prayer.”

Mother Prayer

Author:Victoria Gotti

“It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.”

Feels Children Feelings Mother Lost Emotion Engaged Elsewhere Parental Ambivalent

Book:The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956

Source: The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956

“I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.”

Mother Father Class Wonderful Middle Western Middle Class Salesman Pianist Wonderful Family

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.”

I Can Mother Focus Proud Boxing

Author:Amnat Ruenroeng

“My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.”

Mother Strong Mom Dad Train My Dad My Mom Gym Embarrassing Competitors

Author:Booboo Stewart

“I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.”

Children Home Mother Admire Raising Children Cerebral Cerebral Palsy

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.”

Littles Mother Father Born Poor Poor Family

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.”

Thinking World Care Mother About Yourself

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”

Men Life Has Beens Feelings Mother Winning Self Esteem Self Respect Conqueror

Book:Letters of Sigmund Freud

Source: Letters of Sigmund Freud

“For a Jewish mother, having a country wage war on your son is the worst. If Kim Jong-un only knew what he was doing to my mother!”

Ifs War Country Mother Worst Son Kim Your Son Jewish Mother

Author:Seth Rogen

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