5,322 Quotes About Mother


  • Author Burton
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    When you say something to the mother, she wants to fist-fight you, ... I just wish something could be done.

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  • Author Candice Bergen
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    I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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  • Author Carla Bruni
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    I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

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  • Author Carol Burnett
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    My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

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  • Author Carol Moseley Braun
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    The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.

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  • Author Cate Blanchett
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    I remember when I was 26. My father died when I was young and my mother didn't have a lot of money, so I thought, 'I want to own a flat by the time I'm 26.' So I worked towards that, literally trying to scrimp and save. But sometimes those plans don't go as you expect.

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  • Author Cate Blanchett
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    When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

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  • Author Charles Baudelaire
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    Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother. Your friends? Now you use a word whose meaning I have never known. Your country? I do not know in what latitude it lies. Beauty? I could indeed love her, Goddess and Immortal. Gold? I hate it as you hate God. Then, what do you love, extraordinary stranger? I love the clouds the clouds that pass up there Up there the wonderful clouds!

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