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“One thing with me, and every goal I've had - in the sport of swimming, my mother didn't know my goals. The only person that knew my goals were my coaches.”

Knows Persons Mother Sports Goal One Thing Coaches Swimming

Author:Michael Phelps

“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.”

“Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.”

Knows Lying Mother Wise Truth Is

Book:In The Meantime: Finding Yourself And The Love You Want

Source: In The Meantime: Finding Yourself And The Love You Want

“I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she's happy and she's smiling down at me from heaven?' And that's what I try to go by and walk by.”

Knows Trying Mother Heaven Walks Proud Be Proud

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.”

Knows Men Looks Beautiful Mother Growing Up Growing Dad My Dad Handsome Handsome Men

Author:Courteney Cox

“Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I'm basically a natural blonde.”

People Knows Looks Kind Children Light Mother Natural Dark Hair Blonde

Author:Angelina Jolie

“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

“My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.”

Knows Mother Strong Mom Single Mom

Author:Regina King

“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

“[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.”

“The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.”

Thinking Knows Needs Lasts Lying Mother Guy Know How Advice Honesty Policy Drunk Being The Best Uncles

Author:Adam DeVine

“What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?”

Knows Remember Joy Mother Religious Weakness Virgin Mary Blessed Mother

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like Im sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But its not supposed to be that way.”

Knows Way Feels Sometimes Jobs Mother Acting Talking Supposed To Be France Grandmother Know Me Aunt Not Talking

Author:Carole Bouquet

“I think we all want to be Gisele Bündchen. Whether it inspires. Not only for her beauty. Successful she is, is a businesswoman, is an activist, a good mother is a strong woman and a good example to all the powerful women . Everybody wants to know what she does or says, rather than what she wears.”

Thinking Knows Want Doe Mother Strong Powerful Successful Example Inspire Activist Strong Women Powerful Women Good Examples Her Beauty Good Mother

Author:Erin Heatherton

“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

“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.”

“One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.”

Knows Firsts Wells Whole Mother Waiting Cry Ready Baby Patient Kicks Feds Scream Impatient

Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.”

Thinking Knows Made Wanted Mother Poor College Blue Bottom Impression Suits Brands Going Away Pants Skinny Brand New Powder Peg

Author:Tom Heinsohn

“As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.”

Knows Children Facts Mother Limits Kissing Doctors Constant Speed Faster Cosmic

Book:The Fairyland Series

Source: The Fairyland Series

“My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.”

Knows Young Mother Girl Broke Officers Uniforms Broke Up Disgusted

Author:Michael Haneke

“My mother taught me to focus on being myself and not to worry what other people think about you. I know that as long as I'm a good person I'll stay on the right path. From my dad I learned that when someone tells you “No” it's only the beginning of a conversation. They both have always let me know that I can do anything I want to do as long as I don't give up. They are the most important role models in my life because they are exactly who I want to be when I grow up. They are supportive and understanding and I try every day to remember what they've taught me.”

“You're not famous unless people's mothers know who you are. Everybody else, you think you're famous, but you're just hot, and heat cools off.”

People Thinking Knows Mother Hot Who You Are Heat

Author:Chris Rock

“My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.”

Knows I Can Mother Strong Taught Victim Excuse Never Expect

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.”

“When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.”

Knows Long Shows Would Be Mother Night Know How Broadway Mother Night

Author:Marsha Norman

“My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.”

Knows Children Bigs Together Mother Adults Cousin Hong Kong Only Child Big Families Shanghai

Author:Wong Kar-wai

“I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.”

Knows Looks Persons Enough Hands Mother Water Taught Needed Fit Bowls Palms

Book:Incantation

Source: Incantation

“My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.”

Knows Men Needs Hard Mother Taught Humour Hard Work Dad My Dad Decent Decent Man Headmasters

Author:James Nesbitt

“Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.”

“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

“The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”

Ifs Knows World Children Two Whole Mother Rocks Okay Whole World Throwing Rooted 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

“It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something - it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they've lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It really isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Should Seems Care Kids Used Mother Guy Lost Fun Loses Too Much Trouble Crazy Type Excuse Damn Yellow Gloves No Excuses Caring Too Much

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.”

Knows Want Mother Desire Father Comfort Sickness

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings

“I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.”

“Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.”

Thinking Knows Trying Children Has Beens Said Country Use Funny Mother Girl Found Ought Late Faults Excuse Servant Too Late Sunday Take Me Remedy

Author:William Howard Taft

“I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist--I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree.”

Ifs Knows Want Has Beens Care Mother Black White Poor Class Middle Balls Constitution Agree Don't Care I Don't Care Middle Class Hung Clotheslines

Author:Diamanda Galas

“However patriarchal the world, at home the child knows that his mother is the source of all power. The hand that rocks the cradlerules his world. . . . The son never forgets that he owes his life to his mother, not just the creation of it but the maintenance of it, and that he owes her a debt he cannot conceivably repay, but which she may call in at any time.”

Knows World May Children Home Hands Mother Forget Rocks Creation Son Source Debt Never Forget Maintenance

Author:Frank Pittman

“The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other boys. And she must teach him how to find a woman to take care of him and finish the job she began of training him how to live in a family. But no matter how good a job a woman does in teaching a boy how to be a man, he knows that she is not the real thing, and so he tends to exaggerate the differences between men and women that she embodies.”

Knows Men Doe Real Matter Care Jobs Mother Differences Boys Teach Teaching Son Training Men And Women Take Care Be A Man Real Things Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Frank Pittman

“At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and the civilized world of women, but they are not ready yet for the world of men, so they are only at home with other boys, equally outcast, equally frightened, and equally involved in posturing what they believe to be manhood.”

Knows Men World Believe Heart Home Mother Boys Break Ready Involved Males Civilized Frightened Manhood Not Ready Outcast Bonding Puberty

Author:Frank Pittman

“It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one.”

Knows Men Littles Would Be Life Is Mother Father Know How Too Much Ready Forgiving Mentor Our Father Can't Forgive

Author:Frank Pittman

“Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be for parents to accept certain aspects of their children. It is especially painful to have to admit this if we really love our child and want to respect his or her individuality yet are unable to do so.”

Ifs Knows Want Children Mother Certain Father Parent Difficult Accepting Honest Aspect Our Children Individuality Painful Love Our Children

Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.”

Knows Enough Mother Talking Boys Tired Nonsense Talking Nonsense

Author:Augustus Hare

“oh mothers you will have made the little tykes so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies they won't know the difference and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy”

Ifs Knows Littles Doe Made Mother Differences Picks Movie Sheer Gravy

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can't quite have it all, but that hasn't stopped us from wanting it all for them.”

Knows Stills Mother Desire Strong Work Sweet Daughter Gentle Friendly Fierce Adulthood Adventurous Nurturing Working Women

Author:Anne Roiphe

“You never know in retrospect whether you did or didn't do exactly the right thing, stay-at-home mothers, gone-away mothers, all ofus worry whether we should have done something differently than we did.”

Knows Should Done Home Mother Worry Gone Should Have Right Thing Retrospect Stay At Home Gone Away

Author:Hillary Clinton

“All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.”

Knows Children School Mother Social Bits Emotional Development Achievement Tests Score Social Development Mother Child Test Scores

Author:Sandra Scarr

“When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Facts Mother Deals Know How Guilt Cures Torture Bottles Consolation

Author:Angie Harmon

“What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.”

Knows Writing Mother Perfect Rooms Minutes Taught Willing Ten

Author:Emma Donoghue

“When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.”

Knows Children Mother Father Race Baby Birth Drug Crisis Agency Pregnant Adoption Homosexual Birth Mother

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

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