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“I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.”

Giving Mother Actors Four Week Summer Daughter Silly Nine Movie Turned Down Vancouver Silly Movie

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.”

Way Should Trying Believe Moving Mother Father Process Saws Regret Fine Husband Died Don't Believe Nine Grieving Traits Mum Deeply In Love Grieving Process

Author:Robert Winston

“I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?”

Ifs World Years Reason Happens Would Be Mother Religious Strange Mom Atheist My Mom Nine Nine Years

Author:Tarsem Singh

“Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine.”

Lasts Mother Night Mines Hundred Nine Knees Fairy Take Me Last Night Harper

Author:Mary Howitt

“Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.”

Two Body Mother Months Survival Daughter Female Nine Subversive Mother And Daughter Nine Months Subliminal

Book:Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

“... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.”

Mother Father Taught Raised Nine Mother And Father

Author:Eunice Kennedy Shriver

“When shopping at Dunkin' Donuts, pretend you are the mother of nine. Say things like, 'Little David likes cream-filled and Susie wanted jelly.' That way, no one will be suspicious when you order a dozen donuts with one cup of coffee to go.”

Way Littles Wanted Mother Order Eating Filled Coffee Nine Likes Cups Shopping Dozen Cream Suspicious Coffee Cup Jelly Donuts Dunkin Donuts

Author:Linda Sunshine

“My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard."”

Writing Years Firsts Has Beens Used Mother News Nine Poetry Is Graveyard Nine Years Amsterdam Stepmothers

Author:Ruby Dee

“I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.”

Children Mother Goes On Bird Winter Nine Obliged Nests

Author:Melville Fuller

“Life with a daughter of nine through twelve is a special experience for parents, particularly mothers. In a daughter's looks, actions, attitudes, passions, loves, and hates, in her fears and her foibles, a mother will see herself at the same age. You are far enough away to have some perspective on what your daughter is going through. Still, you are close enough, if reminded, to feel it all again.”

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence