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“I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore," and I went, "Oh, okay," and I gave away what, of course, would now be thousands of dollars worth of comics to the neighborhood kids.”

Wells Said Kids School Mother Courses High School Okay Dollars Teenager Neighborhood

Author:Trina Robbins

“I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'”

Men Years Said Mother Mountain Goodbye Mountain Man

Author:Gigi Graham

“Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” She knew. She understood the secret. Look what she manifested in the world.”

Ifs World Looks Said War Mother Secret Understood Brilliant Invites Anti War Teresa

Author:Jack Canfield

“My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy.' And wouldn't you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress.”

Ifs Knows Said Ends Lasts Mother Black Teacher Week Son Thirds Dresses Green University Lovely Therapy Grades Spokes New Orleans Your Son Third Grade

Author:Laverne Cox

“My mother always said you could eat off her floor; you could eat of my floor too, there's so much food down there.”

Said Mother

Author:Elayne Boosler

“Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.”

Mind Said Mother Courses Security Wind Quiet Wave Contrary Resolution Steady Beaten Vessel Tranquillity Steadiness

Book:Works

Source: Works

“She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.”

People Ifs Knows Heart Said Mother Desire Listening Ears Bottom Lasting True Words

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give. Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it. And now I think I have said sufficient.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?”

Knows Children Said Two Mother Restaurants Unruly Infanticide

Author:Joan Crawford

“So yeah, anyway - I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum - when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?”

Ifs Thinking Should Said Mother Marriage Break Four Married Yeah Hey Hips Settling Thirty Desperate Mum Eighty Settling Down

Author:Sue Margolis

“George Washington said, "All I am, I owe to my mother." That's so true. My mom pushed me to get in politics. She pushed me to learn a bunch of languages. She pushed me and inspired me. She is the reason why I'm in politics.”

Said Reason Mother Language Mom Inspired My Mom Bunch Reason Why

Author:Andrea Tantaros

“I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.”

World Needs Years Children Said Mother Wife Information Our Children Your Children Wives And Mothers

Author:Beck

“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.”

“On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?”

“My mother taught me this trick: if you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning, for example homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework, see? Nothing. Our existence she said is the same way. You watch the sunset too often it just becomes 6 pm you make the same mistake over and over you stop calling it a mistake. If you just wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up one day you'll forget why.”

Ifs Way Said Mother Loses Forget Existence Mistake Watches Example Taught Calling One Day Wake Up Tricks Repeats Sunset Over You Routine Homework Sameness Monotony Same Mistakes Pms

Author:Phil Kay

“I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.”

Men Kind Said Beautiful Faces Mother Battle Psychological Scar

Author:Nick Nolte

“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

“When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Dont separate your life, the life that youre going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'”

Want Children Said Mother Found What You Want Pregnant Were Pregnant

Author:Neneh Cherry

“My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.”

Ifs Said Age Mother Sound Pay Attention Nice Pay Attention

Author:Cher

“When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.”

Said Would Be Mother My Own Path

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

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

“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.”

“There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, “Nothing, I just helped him cry.²” “Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth “You owe me” Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the whole sky..””

“John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the survival of its community. I think of my family stories-Mother's in particular-how much I need them now, how much I will need them later. It has been said when an individual dies, whole worlds die with them. The same could be said of each passing whale.”

Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

“"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

“My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.”

Ifs World Giving Said Ideas Mother Natural Wonderful Birth Contrary Makeup Rainbow Childbirth Unicorn Hyper Giving Birth Wonderful Places Without Makeup Natural Childbirth

Author:Robin Williams

“In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought to have some definite plan, while they were children, what to be and do when they were grown up. There was usually but one path open before them, to become good wives and housekeepers. And the ambition of most girls was to follow their mothers' footsteps in this direction; a natural and laudable ambition. But girls, as well as boys, must often have been conscious of their own peculiar capabilities,--must have desired to cultivate and make use of their individual powers.”

Source: A New England girlhood

“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

“When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians, she said: "You got what to wear?".”

Giving Said Science Mother Mathematics Mathematician

Author:Richard A. Falk

“My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch.”

Writing Said Mother Father Bits Party Cities Asking China Communist Permission Committees Communist Party Patriarch Asking Permission

Author:Jung Chang

“I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said to me, "You've got to work at your career and you've got to be good at it. Okay, you've had a bit of success but that's not longevity. You've got to really work for a long time."”

People Long Said Mother Bits Parent Sound Careers Long Time Okay Intelligent Be Good Sensible Longevity Upbringing

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.”

Said States Facts Kids Wanted Mother Given Pay Morality Taxes Florida

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

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