5,322 Quotes About Mother

  • Author Red Buttons
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    Steven Spielberg's mother, who said to E.T., I don't care where you're from, you're here and you're gonna get bar mitzvahed! Never got a dinner!

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  • Author Red Buttons
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    Donald Trump's mother, who said, Donnie! Stop playing Monopoly and get in that barber's chair! Never got a dinner!

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  • Author Richard Baxter
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    Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

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  • Author Richard Branson
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    My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

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  • Author Rita Mae Brown
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    Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

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  • Author Rita Mae Brown
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    When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

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  • Author Rita Mae Brown
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    No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

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  • Author Rita Mae Brown
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    Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.

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