5,322 Quotes About Mother

  • Author Emma Thompson
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    This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!

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  • Author Emma Thompson
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    When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

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  • Author Emma Thompson
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    It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

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  • Author Emma Thompson
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    I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.

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  • Author Francis Thompson
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    Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.

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  • Author Gene Tierney
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    What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

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  • Author Gene Tierney
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    In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

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  • Author Gene Tierney
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    The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man.

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