1,809 Quotes About Mom

  • Author Elle Fanning
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    For a long time, I refused to wear jeans. I liked high-waisted pants, but jeans made me feel like I wasn't being unique. Even now, I won't wear the skinny-jeans style, because most people wear those - they have to be baggier, boyfriend-looking, or sort of like a mom jean. I'm real funny that way.

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  • Author Erich Fromm
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    The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

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  • Author Erich Fromm
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    Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

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  • Author Fergie
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    Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

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  • Author Fergie
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    I always had this dream to make a solo record. I told my mom when I was 7 years old, but I just ended up being in bands. I'm a free spirit. I follow my heart, and it's led me to where I am.

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  • Author Isabelle Fuhrman
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    I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!

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  • Author Isla Fisher
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    In Hollywood, you feel a responsibility to look less disheveled than you are. But I'm a mom, and I'm not good at putting time into prepping.

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  • Author James Fenton
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    The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

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  • Author Jeaniene Frost
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    But-but…” Timmie’s eyes couldn’t get any wider. “Why did you tell her I’m your boyfriend? Why doesn’t she know about your real one?” That was a good question. I cast around for an answer. Any answer. “He’s English!” I settled on desperately. “And Mom…Mom hates foreigners!

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