Quotes with mother

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  • Quentin Crisp My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Wilma Rudolph My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
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  • Ben Affleck My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Beth Ditto My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Buck Owens My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Ben van Berkel My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • Brooke Shields My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Brigitte Bardot My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Barry Marshall My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser My mother was a politician in my formative years.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • B. B. King My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
    Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • George Washington My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Brandi Carlile My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bonnie Tyler My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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