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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's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.”

Children Mother House Built Kitchen Focal Point

Author:Gail Simmons

“But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.”

Stills Ends Mother House Streets Grew Grew Up Corners Dead Ends

Author:Mink Stole

“My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!”

Kind Mother Order Father House Instruments All Kinds Mail

Author:Cassandra Wilson

“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'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

“I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.”

Book Bigs Mother House Sex Forever Bigger Forbidden Sixteen

Book:Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.”

Mother Father House Heard Yiddish

Author:Joseph H. Greenberg

“My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.”

Believe Seems Mother Father House I Believe Memories Groups Arms Walking Garden Orchard Memory Of My Father

Author:Immanuel Velikovsky

“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

“The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.”

Heart Children Mother House Example Humility Discipline Manners Good Man Hospitality Cleanliness Good Manners Shrines Acts Of Service

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it's the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it's been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in.”

“Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.”

Mother House Wife Crazy Sitting Madness Driving Sitting Around Drive Me Crazy Wives And Mothers

Author:Patsy Cline

“When my mother was trying to teach me how to make friends when I was a kid, she'd bring girls over to the house and I'd give them all my clothes. Nothing changes, I still do it. And then I wonder, "Where is that really nice Isabel Marant dress that I spent a fortune on? Oh my god, I gave it to Liza."”

Giving Trying Stills Kids Mother Girl House Wonder Teach Nice Clothes Dresses Fortune Things Change Really Nice

Author:Courtney Love

“I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.”

Humans Book Soul Body Mother House Stars My Own Taken Influence Mines Fine Drink Goodness Office Fortune Treasure My Soul Stomach Pool Roof Theft

Author:Walter Wangerin

“My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.”

Mother Father House Grew Grew Up Jazz Opera

Author:Chaka Khan

“My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.”

Littles Shows Used Mother Song Father House Stuff Rocks Dad Musician Instruments My Dad Singers Latin Rock And Roll Brooklyn

Author:Bruno Mars

“I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For a kid it's traumatic. Towels you can never touch. China no one's ever gonna use. Everything is for a special occasion that never happens. My mother was waiting for the Pope to show up for dinner. Or Sinatra. Or Chachi.”

Use Shows Happens Kids Mother House Waiting Special China Dinner Occasions Italian Museums Plastic Pope Furniture Towels Special Occasion

Author:Ray Romano

“Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.”

Mother House Church Cold Healthy Dear Warm Pleasant Ale Dear Mother

Book:The Selected Poems of William Blake

Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake

“On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) [This] adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them.”

People Mean Children Important Mother Fall House Opinion Saws Feet Kings Worship Down And Scripture Customs Mary Falling Down Adoration Matthew Mother Mary

Author:Martin Luther

“I heard the term "mamisma" when describing Speaker of the House [Nancy] Pelosi, how she was speaking from that place which is kind of like a strong mother. Like when your mom says like, "put that down!" you know that is coming from a place of both love and strength. And at this critical stage in human history we need both action and caring.”

Knows Needs Humans Kind Action Mother House Strong Term Heard Stage Mom Caring Critical Speakers Human History Describing Your Mom Nancy Strength And Love

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin.”

Thinking Mother Father House Lost Gender Tenderness Coins Housewife Parables

Author:Max Lucado

“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

“Bad karma is the spiritual debt one has accumulated for one's mistakes from all previous lives and this life. It includes killing, harming, taking advantage, cheating, stealing, and more. On Mother Earth, when you buy a house, you take out a mortgage from a bank. This mortgage is your debt to the bank. You pay every month for fifteen, twenty, or thirty years to clear your financial debt. In the spiritual realm, if you have bad karma, you may have to pay for many lifetimes to clear your spiritual debt.”

“Bill Clinton may in fact be moving back into the White House. And coincidentally I'm thinking about moving back into my mother's house.”

Thinking May Facts Moving Mother House White Bills Clinton White House Moving Back

Author:David Letterman

“Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.”

Children Mother House Hours Heard Calling Bases Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her teens he insisted on marrying her also, having first by some means won her affections. The mother, however, was much opposed to this marriage, and finally gave up her husband entirely to her daughter; and to this very day the daughter bears children to her stepfather, living as wife in the same house with her mother!”

Knows Men Firsts Mean Children Mother Girl House Wife Bears Husband Married Daughter Affection Teens Another Man Gave Up Widows Marrying Polygamy Stepfathers Marrying Her

Author:T. B. H. Stenhouse

“Keep everybody out your business, that's how you do it. And I mean everybody. It ain't about having a relationship outside of the house. It's about having a relationship within each other. When something go down don't be calling your sister or your mother; I'm not gonna be calling my brother or uncles. We're gonna work it out.”

Mean Mother House Brother Calling My Brother Working It Uncles

Author:Ice Cube

“Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.”

Thinking Remember Death Mother Father House Rooms Our Father Think Of You Departed

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.”

Dream Law Mother House Wonderful Cost Pet In-laws Mother In Law

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Mothers know the difference between a broth and a consommé. And the difference between damask and chintz. And the difference between vinyl and Naugahyde. And the difference between a house and a home. And the difference between a romantic and a stalker. And the difference between a rock and a hard place.”

Knows Hard Home Mother House Differences Rocks Vinyl

Author:Patricia Marx

“My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.”

Heart Long Mother Father House Sound Lines Rooms Extras Load Translate Charming Motto Bathroom Hospitality Laundry Long Lines

Book:Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

“Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.”

Men Years Children War Body Mother House Language Wife Scene Husband Smart Strikes Video Despite Bombs Ministry Burned Weeping Defence Describing Pentagon Mother Child Craters Wife Mother

Author:Marie Colvin

“My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.”

“I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to wear them at home. We're talking about a different time period now, when the man was much more the ruler of the house. But I still feel that way, and neither my mother nor Maria is allowed to go out with me in pants.”

Men Way Feels Stills Different Home Mother Hate Father House Talking He Man Periods I Hate Pants Rulers Despised Different Times Time Periods

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.”

Firsts Might Moving Law Mother House Force White Months Tests Barack White House Hostile In-laws Biden Mother In Law

Author:Jay Leno

“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

“A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the edge of the land and sea, I feel this tension, this fluid line of transition. High tide. Low tide. It is the sea's reach and retreat that reminds me we have been human for only a very short time.”

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.”

“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

“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

“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

“When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.”

People Doe Matter Moments Shows Hands Able Mother House Hell Keys Beach Beach House

Author:Tony Robbins

“I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.”

Littles Care Mother House Rooms Cry My Friends Thirty Forty Bottles Seconds Closets Sucker Germs One On One Pacifiers

Book:Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

Source: Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

“As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.”

Children Mother House Youth Rose Nostalgia Fragrance Backyards

Author:Thelma Golden

“The time-use studies also show that employed women spend as much time as nonworking women in direct interactions with their children. Employed mothers spend as much time as those at home reading to and playing with their young children, although they do not, of course, spend as much time simply in the same room or house with the children.”

Children Use Shows Home Young Mother Courses Reading House Rooms Study Direct Interaction Employed Young Children

Author:Sandra Scarr

“I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.”

Men Young Mother Humanity House Realizing Genius Blessing Musician Theater Towns Moved Ran Young Man Hotel Touching Adequate Great Music Dukes Memphis Great Musician Our Town Hamptons

Author:Charles Lloyd

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