1,809 Quotes About Mom


  • Author Ned Vizzini
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    I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?

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  • Author Ned Vizzini
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    I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.

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  • Author Ned Vizzini
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    No," mom says, looking at me in the eyes. "What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.

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  • Author Pope Paul VI
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    Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

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  • Author Vince Vaughn
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    My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

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  • Author Alice Walker
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    Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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  • Author Ariel Winter
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    If I go on dates, my mom is always with me. She's always there making sure I'm all right. Like if I go to see a movie with a boy, she'll go to dinner next door.

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  • Author Betty Who
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    I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

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