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“I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.”

Knows Years Has Beens Mother Taught Seven Thirty My Sister Seven Years

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.”

World Mother House Natural Religious Dog Taught Grew Lovers Grew Up Natural World Taught Us Nature Love Nature Lover

Author:Glenn Close

“My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'”

Ifs World Mother Walks Mines Taught Proud Tall

Author:Sophia Loren

“Maybe I don't think I'm touching people, but I am. Sometimes I'm sitting there at three in the morning, proofreading something, and I'm thinking, Is this really worth it? Or am I doing this only because my mother taught me never to give up? Then you realize, no, even if it doesn't come back to you, you are touching people.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Sometimes Mother Three Realizing Morning Taught Giving Up Sitting Touching Worth It Never Giving Up

Author:Micah Lexier

“My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.”

Thinking Mother Values My Own Pay Taught Equal Fairness Family Values Equal Pay

Author:Michael M. Honda

“My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.”

Lying Mother Fighting Taught Mom I Hate You

Author:Whitney Houston

“It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night but most of it came from the church.”

Said Mother Night Church Prayer Taught Comfort

Author:Wesley Clark

“My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.”

Should Littles School Mother Teacher Taught Should Have Thirds Terror Destroyed Bored Bombs Grades Classroom Snakes Third Grade

Author:Steve Jobs

“When I was a child and I was upset about something, my mother was not capable of containing that emotion, of letting me be upset but reassuring me, of just being with me in a calming way. She always got in a flap, so I not only had my own baby panics, fears and terrors to deal with, but I had to cope with hers, too. Eventually I taught myself to remain calm when I was panicked, in order not to upset her. In a way, she had managed to put me in charge of her. At 18 months old, I was doing the parenting.”

Way Children Mother Order My Own Deals Emotion Taught Baby Months Capable Calm Terror Upset Panic Just Being Containing Calming Reassuring

Author:John Cleese

“I think big-that's what my mother taught me. If you think small and accomplish it, what does it mean? Who cares? To me the sky's the limit, and I'm going to try and get there.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Mean Doe Bigs Care Mother Sky Taught Limits Accomplish Who Cares Think Big Sky's The Limit

Author:Eli Manning

“I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.”

People Thinking Care Mother Taught Projects Grandmother My Grandmother Positive Image

Author:Lamar Odom

“Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones - his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them - two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression.”

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“One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach.”

Book Spirit Mother Reading Water Memories Seeing Taught Lessons Edges Beach Chairs My Sister Life Lesson Take Time Umbrella

Author:Luanne Rice

“The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Remember Mother Values Term Perfect Half Heard Taught Percent First Time Lips Ass

Author:Justin Timberlake

“I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.”

Mother Taught Temporary Encouraging Road To Success Recipe For Success Words Of Encouragement Postponement

Author:Buddy Ebsen

“When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.”

Mother Growing Up Growing Taught Exposed Buttons Belly Taught Us Belly Buttons

Author:Mary-Kate Olsen

“I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty. Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.... I think beauty is an expression of love.”

“Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.”

Knows Men Children Doe Earth Mother Teach One Thing Blood Taught Son All Things Our Children Creator Connected Harm Your Children Contempt Strands Web Of Life

Author:Chief Seattle

“As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.”

People Children Might Mother Taught Polite Youngsters Considerate Courteous Be Considerate Considerate And Caring

Author:Zig Ziglar

“I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list.”

Thinking Firsts Sometimes Mother Sacrifice Taught Higher Investing Lists Priorities Good Mother Being A Good Mother

Author:Michelle Obama

“Both of my parents are music teachers. My mother owns the school that I taught in. My brothers and sisters are musicans. My mom pushed me all the time. She knew that I could do it. She knew more than I did. She thought I would go somewhere. She gave me the job and helped me get equipment, which a lot of parents don't do. Alot of my students had to go out and fight for it.”

School Jobs Mother Fighting Parent Teacher Students Taught Brother Mom My Mom My Brother Equipment Brothers And Sisters Music Teacher

Author:Randy Rhoads

“When I was about 17, I had a row with my mother and left home for six months, renting a flat and working as a waitress for a while. I learnt you could double your earnings if you gave good, cheerful service. It taught me that in any job you can improve your lot.”

Ifs Home Jobs Mother Left Taught Months Six Flats Earning Cheerful Six Months Waitress Good Cheer

Author:Anne Robinson

“My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.”

Sometimes Facts Mother Reading Class Teacher Teaching Taught Consequence India Bored Hindi English Teacher Reading More

Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.”

Firsts Kind Persons Mother Father Taught Mets Be Kind Most Amazing Be Kind To Others Amazing Person

Author:Sidney Poitier

“All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'”

Ifs School Mother Three Parent Teacher Taught Dad High School My Dad Bread Dimes Stepmothers

Author:Dick Cavett

“My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.”

Ifs Needs Should Mother Taught Available Need You

Author:Vandana Shiva

“The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.”

Humans Stills Facts Mother Creativity Taught Products Labor Crafts Taught Us Embodiment Handicrafts

Author:Vandana Shiva

“There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.”

Made Mother Father Taught Track Right Track

Author:Richard Sherman

“My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.”

Thinking Men World Stills Care Kids Christian Young Mother Father Strong Inspiring Example Taught Six Take Care Good Man Mothers Day Be Young Young Ladies

Author:Magic Johnson

“I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson.”

People Lasts Beautiful Mother Week Taught Lessons Indiana Beautiful People Andrea Indianapolis

Author:Elton John

“My mother and my father taught me to look at the actual problem, not the face of it, not the veneer of it. So for me, I was never - I was impressed that it - racially, I was impressed, right, but now in America it's about economics, and it's been about economics, and honestly, everything's been about economics since I don't want to say the beginning of time, but it's been about economics for a long while.”

Want Looks Long Problem America Faces Mother Father Taught Economics Honestly Impressed Veneer

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“I have a good black friend who is a doctor, but he didn't become a doctor because he saw other black men who were doctors. He became a doctor because his mother cleaned office buildings at night, and because she loved her children. She grew bowlegged from cleaning office buildings at night, and in the process she taught him something about courage and bravery and dedication to others.”

Men Children Mother Night Process Black Saws Building Taught Grew Office Doctors Bravery Dedication Cleaning Bravery And Courage Office Buildings

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.”

Children Mother Taught Dancing Jazz Ballet Flexible

Author:Michael Angarano

“We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time, after the war. My mother had many Vietnamese friends who entertained a lot, and she was taught how to make that spring roll. She would make them all the time.”

War Young Mother Taught Spring France Refugee Vietnamese Vietnamese Refugees

Author:Eric Ripert

“Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.”

Mother Failing Taught Stones Opposites Stepping Stones

Author:Arianna Huffington

“My grandmother taught me two very important lessons before she passed: hold the door for everyone and always say "thank you." That means to treat everyone the same, no matter if it is the President or a homeless mother begging for food. And never forget to thank those who have helped you, whether it is the person serving you food at a restaurant or your third-grade teacher who taught you the multiplication tables.”

“My mother [actress Tanuja] has taught me that. It's 100 percent home or 100 percent work - I give complete attention to both. That's because I understand that work is not my life, and my life is not just work.”

Giving Home Life Is Mother Attention Taught Percent Actresses

Author:Kajol

“The greatest motivator and leveler in my life has been my yoga practice. It has taught me how to be a grown-up, follow through, give back, be compassionate, be a better mother, wife, daughter, sibling, friend, and just show up.”

Giving Has Beens Shows Mother Practice Wife Taught Daughter Yoga Compassionate Giving Back Sibling Yoga Practice Follow Through

Author:Emily Carpenter

“When a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and stars, the clouds and storms. She also taught me to kneel and pray to Usen for strength, health, wisdom, and protection. We never prayed against any person, but if we had aught against any individual we ourselves took vengeance. We were taught that Usen does not care for the petty quarrels of men.”

Source: Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett

“My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.”

Looks Children Stills Mother Suffering Girl Boys Gone Taught Decent Taught Us Great Women

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.”

Book Spiritual Mother Father Teacher Taught I've Learned Thank God Pastor Mother And Father Spiritual Teachers

Author:Larry Gatlin

“[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.”

Mother Interest Taught Music Is Grandmother My Grandmother Pianist

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure that I knew my role as a young lady and as someone with moral structures and principles. She taught me that if I was going to be involved with anything, whether it be spirituality, music, or some skill, that I have to practice.”

Ifs Made Young Mother Spirituality Names Powerful Moral Principles Roles Practice Taught Involved Skills Structure Medicine Grandmother Very Powerful Young Ladies

Author:Erykah Badu

“My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.”

“I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since, did not have the words or the experience to teach me about the miraculous cycle in my body - the cycle that is responsible for all human life on our planet and connects us to the moon and the tides. Nor did she have the words to teach me about the gift of sensual pleasure that is the birthright of all girls. If she had, my life surely would have been different. For one, I probably would not have suffered from devastating menstrual cramps for decades.”

“Becoming a mother has taught me to simply things and also to appreciate being at home more.”

Home Mother Taught Becoming Appreciate Becoming A Mother

Author:Shakira

“My mother was always expanding my art skills and getting me to paint different things. You always got to push some. And, I mean, I learned basic things like getting up on time, how to shop - you know, you don't touch things in a store you're not going to buy. These things were taught very young. I don't see today enough of this basic, you know, basic skill teaching.”

Knows Mean Art Different Enough Today Young Mother Teaching Taught Skills Paint Stores Shops Different Things Expanding Basic Things

Author:Temple Grandin

“My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.”

“Don't depend on acting as your sole source of income. Work nights, so you can have your days off to attend auditions. Have something to fall back on. That's what my mother taught me, and it's critical in Hollywood.”

Mother Night Fall Acting Taught Source Depends Hollywood Critical Income Sole Auditions Fall Back Days Off

Author:Michael Clarke Duncan

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