Best mother & lines Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.”

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Author:Christopher Bollen

“I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass.”

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Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.”

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Author:Maria Edgeworth

“What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy - the way a mother would put her life on the line for her children - we need to put our life on the line for each other.”

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Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.”

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Book:Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy

Source: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy

“Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.”

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Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.”

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Book:Ten Sermons of Religion

Source: Ten Sermons of Religion

“Some of the best indicators of a country developing along the right lines are healthy mothers giving birth to healthy children who are assured of good care and a sound education that will enable them to face the challenges of a changing world.”

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Book:Letters From Burma:

Source: Letters From Burma:

“My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.”

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Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“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.”

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

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

“My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.”

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Author:Rachel McAdams

“My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.”

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Author:Brandon Lee

“I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon.”

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Author:Alexa Vega

“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

“You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be and you let them go. Some actors like to be nudged just a little bit. Some actors don't mind line readings.”

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Author:Rob Reiner

“My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.”

“Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.”

Source: Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power

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