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“I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.”

People Mean Littles Kids Wanted America Used Mother Church Known Trouble Hero Used To Be Preacher Little Kid My Hero Goofy Murphy Imitating Coming To America Goofing Off

Author:Lamorne Morris

“Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.”

Wisdom School America Mother Girl Reform Shocked Verge

Author:Will Rogers

“I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.”

Ifs Hard Wisdom America Mother Doubt Determined Checks Ambitious Elephants Charging Rhinos

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.”

Thinking America Mother Careers Personality

Author:Victoria Beckham

“Stupid word, that. Period. In America it means 'full stop,' like in punctuation. That's stupid as well. A period isn't a full stop. It's a new beginning. I don't mean all that creativity, life-giving force, earth-mother stuff, I mean it's a new beginning to the month, relief that you're not pregnant, when you don't have to have a child.”

Giving Wells Mean Children Earth America Mother Force Stuff Creativity Stupid Months Periods Relief Pregnant New Beginnings Punctuation

Author:Michelene Wandor

“My mother and grandmothers could never have lived my life; my father and my grandfathers could never have imagined it. But they bestowed on me the promise of America, which made my life and my choices possible.”

Made America Mother Choices Father Promise Grandmother Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.”

Children America Mother Single Mother

Author:Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

“Is it to be imagined ... that women were made for no other purpose than to fabricate sweetmeats and gingerbread, construct shirts, darn stockings, and become mothers of possible presidents? Assuredly not. Should the women of America ever discover what their power might be, and compare it with what it is, much improvement might be hoped for.”

Should Made Might America Mother Purpose Women President Improvement Compare Shirts Sexism Constructs T Shirt Stockings Fabricate Gingerbread

Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume

Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume

“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

“Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to it's true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images and when you grow old as grow old you must they won't hate you”

Knows Soul Body Kids America Mother Hate House Grows Darkness Air Hate You Fresh Air Old You

Book:Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition