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“My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.”

Years Bigs Mother Father House Parent Born Cooks County Big Houses Chauffeurs Norfolk

Author:Paul Nurse

“My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.”

Years Mother Father Born Mexico Lebanese

Author:Carlos Slim

“We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.”

Knows Littles Real Happens Young Mother Father Black Born Boys Issues Heard Serious Dad Young Women Serious Issues Black Boy

Author:Karrine Steffans

“I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.”

Thinking Wells Enough Mother Girl Born Creativity Lucky Piano Fairy Lazy Call Me Nuts Glitter Dressed Up Louisiana Plantations Rebecca

Author:Rebecca Wells

“My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.”

Firsts Mother Father Born Generations Hollywood Raised Greek Native Los Angeles Born And Raised Bulgarians

Author:Rita Wilson

“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

“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

“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

“Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is born.”

Heart Mother Humanity House Christ Born Lessons Thee Forlorn

Book:A Christmas Wreath

Source: A Christmas Wreath

“What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings-- This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.”

Earth Lying Mother Born White Lord Air Cry Kings Bed Wings Christmas Heavenly Babe

Book:The Celestial Passion

Source: The Celestial Passion

“Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.”

Giving Mother Born Months Give Me Saved Pounds Eighteen Auschwitz

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.”

Firsts Kind Mother Father Heaven Christ Born Steps Seeing Despair Saved Holiness First Steps Born Again Father Mother

Book:The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory

Source: The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory

“I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.”

Earth Mother Born Painting Taste Painter Milk Milieu

Author:Yves Klein

“I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.”

Mother Literature Sides Born Known My Family Ohio Cincinnati Ohio

Author:Kenneth Koch

“Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.”

Kind Mother Born Virtue Humility Humble Obedience Reverence Modesty Meekness

Author:Thomas of Villanova

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.”

Ifs Running Mother Courses Father Born Blood Mets Diversity Raised Folks Track Boat Indian Territory Ancestor Mother And Father Born And Raised Right Track Cherokee Mayflower

Author:Will Rogers

“My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.”

Has Beens Together Young Mother Born Cities Brother Dad My Dad Boat Borders Germany Immigrants Passages Brothers And Sisters Could Have Been Poland Montreal Austria Large Family

Author:William Shatner

“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.”

Source: Big Stone Gap: A Novel

“I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.”

Mother Three Born Walks Week Pounds

Author:Art Donovan

“There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.”

People Men Needs Two Matter Mother Purpose Universe Women Born Race Fiction Teach Men And Women No Matter What Science Fiction Males Motivated Toys Inherent Nurture Time To Kill

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Natural-born American means you don`t have to be naturalized. You were born to an American mother, like President Obama, no matter where you were born.”

Mean Matter Mother President Born Natural President Obama

Author:Chris Matthews

“What I do for living, working on something called string theory which we think may answer the fundamental question: Are there other universes? Can you go through a black hole? Can you warp the fabric of space and time and meet your mother before you were born? These are all questions that in principle string theory should be able to answer.”

Thinking Should May Able Mother Universe Black Born Space Answers Principles Theory Fundamentals Holes Strings Fabric Time And Space Black Hole Warp String Theory

Author:Michio Kaku

“When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.”

Ifs Wanted Mother Father Born Wealth Let Me If I Could Household Disguise

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.”

Mother Born Motherhood Denied Unborn Despised Unmarried

Author:Caroline Norton

“Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.”

Mother Born Son Baby Glasses Cease Combat Jars Mother And Son

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.”

Mother Father Jesus Born Female Inspired Males Opening Chains Adulthood Being A Mother Athena Odyssey

Book:Sexual Personae

Source: Sexual Personae

“I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.”

Feels Should Children Ends Happens Mother Born Tragedy Categories

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too.”

Men Wells Made Hands Running Used Mother Born Office Built Claims Every Man Used To Be Public Life Cabins Public Office Log Cabins

Author:William J. Clinton

“I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty.I decided that I would not live for myself but would live for others.”

Children Used Mother House Born Poor Poverty Decided Sells Coaches Tea Household Livelihood Railway Live For Others Poor Family Utensils

Author:Narendra Modi

“I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.”

Mother Next Born Poor Doors Birth Tables Kitchen Kitchen Table

Author:Mel Brooks

“My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.”

Lasts Mother Father Names Born Half Raised Chinese Greek Germany Hawaii Filipino

Author:Mark Dacascos

“When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.”

Giving Two Mother Born Existence Baby Birth Former Womb

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Both my mothers family and my fathers family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so thats the way I see myself.”

Way Years Mother Father Born Hundred My Family Raised

Author:Ann Kirkpatrick

“At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.”

People Firsts Book Remember Mother Black Born White South Raised Starting Southern Black And White Born And Raised Raised In The South

Author:Edward P. Jones

“It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.”

Men Kind Earth Mother Found Born Enemy Birth Elements

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.”

People Able Mother Born Unique

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call ourselves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.”

Source: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque, Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished But Himself with an Account how He was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates, Written by Himself

“When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.”

Should Mind Mother Born Shame Humble Be Good Our Thoughts

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd, The child is born by many a pang endear'd And now the mother's ear has caught his cry; O grant the cherub to her asking eye! He comes--she clasps him. To her bosom press'd He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest.”

Children Moments Eye Mother Wish Born Hours Cry Drink Ears Asking Presses Caught Grants Bosoms Infancy Cherubs

Author:Samuel Rogers

“I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.”

People Way Stills Mother Desire Girl Born My Own Steps Generations Taught Daughter Opposites Misery Raised Chinese My Daughter Bitterness Up And Down Stairs

Author:Amy Tan

“Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.”

Ifs Knows Reason Lying Mother Born Sin Originals Shelter Keep The Faith

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.”

Knows Should Wells Enough Mother Born Half Talking Boys Baby Importance Filled Tired Intellect Nonsense Happy Life Infant Conceit Talking Nonsense

Author:Augustus William Hare

“She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.”

People World Believe Children Ends Mother Born Half Quality Forever Son Daughter Adults Weight Burden Active Carrie Bores Redeemer Son And Daughter Wronged

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!”

Feels Firsts Death Mother Born Cities First Time Breaths Blessed Broke Strokes Chamber Crowded Seals Pestilence Bridal Crowded Cities

Book:Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

Source: Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

“I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.”

Running Mother Water Born Rivers Rome Veins Naples

Author:Augusto De Luca

“Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.”

Children Mother Born Not Alone Childbirth

Author:Gertrud von Le Fort

“I am born connected. I am born remembering rivers flowing from my mother's body into my body.”

Body Remember Mother Born Rivers Connected

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.”

“Our mother's first gift to us comes at the moment we are born, because Mom, as she will subsequently remind us over and over, gives us the Gift of Life Like many of the gifts we receive from our mothers, the Gift of Life usually doesn't fit properly and is almost never returnable without a major hassle.”

Giving Firsts Moments Mother Born Mom Fit Majors Gifts Of Life Hassle

Author:Linda Sunshine

“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