Quotes with mother’s

Quotes 241 till 260 of 384.

  • Augusten Burroughs My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Betsy Brandt My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Bob McDonnell My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • John Barrymore My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Nature is not our mother, Nature is our sister.
    Source: The Eternal Revolution
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Mark Twain Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Necessity! thou mother of the world!
    Source: Queen Mab VI, 58
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Jane Welsh Carlyle Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
    Jane Welsh Carlyle
    Scottish writer (1801 - 1866)
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  • George Herbert Night is the mother of counsels.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Bobbi Kristina Brown No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.
    Bobbi Kristina Brown
    American reality television personality, media personality, and singer (1993 - 2015)
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  • Margaret Sanger No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
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  • B. B. King Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Camille Paglia Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Beverly Jones Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
    Beverly Jones
     
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  • Aeschylus Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bernard Lagat Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.
    Bernard Lagat
     
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  • Lin Yü-tang Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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