Quotes with mother

Quotes 181 till 200 of 384.

  • Buddha Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Mother Teresa Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Aeschylus Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Emma Goldman Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Mother Teresa More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Gloria Steinem Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Blythe Danner Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Angela Carter Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Arnold Bennett Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Antonia Fraser My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Barry Hannah My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Bruce Forsyth My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bode Miller My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Barack Obama My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bruno Mars My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III My father offered his life so our democracy could live. My mother devoted her life to nurturing that democracy. I will dedicate my life to making our democracy reach its fullest potential: that of ensuring equality for all. My family has sacrificed much, and I am willing to do this again if necessary.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Blake Bailey My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.
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  • Broderick Crawford My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
    Broderick Crawford
    American actor (1911 - 1986)
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  • Arthur Rock My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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