5,322 Quotes About Mother

  • Author Tamora Pierce
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    Sandry: "I am silly, now and then. My mother said I was, anyway." Daja: "If you know, you can stop it." Sandry: "Then you've never been silly or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning.

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  • Author Ted Parrish
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    Everyone and their mother had a negative opinion and groupthink tends to get the Street in trouble,

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    I know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!" "My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow…" "Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

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  • Author Thomas Paine
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    This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

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  • Author Tyler Perry
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    'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

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  • Author Tyler Perry
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    A mother's love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

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  • Author Tyler Perry
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    I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was: God let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother. I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience. So, they've already done enough. All I ask for now is their continued support.

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