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“I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.”

Made Mother Father Stubbornness I Love My Mother

Author:Tracy Morgan

“A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.”

Knows Men Children Doe Care Running Mother Father Parent Policy Deserve Sick Mad Hardship Episodes Workplace Days Off Mad Men Sick Children

Author:Barack Obama

“Every father says the same thing: “Where's your mother?””

Mother Father

Author:Bill Cosby

“My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.”

Persons Sometimes Mother Father Parent Church Neighbor Ministers Gentleman Terrific

Author:Jane Pauley

“I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. Theyve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.”

People Thinking Giving Two Hard Mother Father Goal Taught Brother Hard Work Raised Definitions My Brother Brothers And Sisters Mother And Father

Author:Josie Loren

“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

“I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.”

Mother Father Born Son California Immigrants Mexico Mexican

Author:Michael Trevino

“I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.”

Hard Mother Father Picks Raised

Author:Joely Fisher

“My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.”

People Firsts Hard Mother Father Stars Parent Company Player Hard Work Integrity International Nba Secretary Nba Player All Stars

Author:Brian J. White

“The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.”

Ifs Want Firsts Said Jobs Mother Actors Father Rejection Instruction Auditions

Author:Michele Lee

“[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.”

“Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?”

Should Mother Father Love Is Sacred Dues Mother Love

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

Source: The garden of a commuter's wife

“in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?”

Long Stills Seems Spirit Mother Father Term Loss Grief Half Century Deny Graves Buried Mourn Stirring Half A Century

Author:Eileen Simpson

“I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.”

Light Mother Father House Lost Tree Grew Grew Up Singing Tiny Golden Dawn Piano Palestinian Showers Chords House Music Golden Light Tiny Houses

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.”

“I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.”

Kind Mother Artist Certain Father Access Artistic Entertainers Milton Nightclubs Smitten Sids Bookmakers

Author:Lainie Kazan

“If anyone does not in accord with the Holy Fathers acknowledge the holy and ever virgin and immaculate Mary was really and truly the Mother of God, inasmuch as she, in the fullness of time,and without seed, conceived by the Holy Spirit, God in the Word Himself, who before all time was born of God the Father, and without loss of integrity brought Him forth, and after His birth preserved her virginity inviolate, let him be condemned.”

Ifs Doe Spirit Mother Father Born Religious Loss Birth Integrity Holy Seeds All Time Acknowledge Holy Spirit Mary Virgins Fullness Accord Virginity Virgin Mary Immaculate

Author:Pope Martin I

“The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.”

Giving Mother Father Wish Regard Complexes Obstacles Intense Oedipus

Book:The Ego and the Id

Source: The Ego and the Id

“I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone whos busy and has too many children, like my mother.”

Writing Children Persons Home Wanted Mother Father Voice Hurt Feet Unique Busy Coming Home Bus Donuts Dunkin Donuts

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.”

Kids Mother Father Stuff Teach Streets Crime Serious Protect Criminals Gang Hardened

Author:Steven Seagal

“The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.”

Children Mother Father Powerful Teaching Concerned Most Powerful Righteous

Author:L. Tom Perry

“There are two keys to productive missionary work -- (1) family-to-family friendshipping (when a member family shares the gospel with a nonmember family) and (2) cooperation between members and the missionaries to reach people...Every member knows of nonmembers he or she can refer to the missionaries. Every father, mother, and youth in this church should share the gospel by giving a Book of Mormon, telling the account of the Prophet Joseph Smith, or inviting our acquaintances to a special meeting.”

“My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.”

Wells Mother Father Havens Areas West South British Indian Montana Dakota South Dakota West Indies

Author:Richie Havens

“I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mothers family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.”

Mother Father Fans Revenge Yankees Brooklyn Dodgers Yankee Fans

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for all and for ever put his family outside his magical circle.Even the Gospels insist clearly and weightily on this.Christ himself (i.e. whoever is meant by this name in this passage) callously disowns his mother and his brethren (Luke VIII, 19). And he repeatedly makes discipleship contingent on the total renunciation of all family ties. He would not even allow a man to attend his father's funeral!Is the magical tradition less rigid?Not on your life!”

Men Firsts Mother Father Names Christ Conditions Tradition Circles Ties Funeral Passages Discipleship Brethren Luke Renunciation Family Ties

Author:Aleister Crowley

“My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.”

People Ifs Way Want Two Problem Mother Father Students Treats Treated Golden Live By Golden Rule Youngsters Mother And Father Mistreat

Author:Monte Irvin

“I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.”

Mother Father Parent Ability Money Spending Earning Spending Money Earning It

Book:Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

“Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me I've got a tumor in my brain. And when you face those situations, they transform you, they change you, and when you're able to break through them to a new level, they allow you to have gifts to give other people.”

People Giving Body Happens Able Faces Mother Three Father Levels Brain Situation Break Doctors Things Happen Buried Break Through Physical Body Tumors

Author:Tony Robbins

“I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.”

People Thinking Believe Done Problem Together Young Mother Father I Believe Parent Havens Responsible Blame Units Mother And Father Sticking Together

Author:Denzel Washington

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“"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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