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“I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’”

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Book:Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime

Source: Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime

“It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.”

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Author:Liya Kebede

“People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?"”

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Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Is it to be imagined ... that women were made for no other purpose than to fabricate sweetmeats and gingerbread, construct shirts, darn stockings, and become mothers of possible presidents? Assuredly not. Should the women of America ever discover what their power might be, and compare it with what it is, much improvement might be hoped for.”

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Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume

Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume

“[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.”

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Book:My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business - Dick Van Dyke

Source: My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business - Dick Van Dyke