Quotes with step-mother

Quotes 301 till 320 of 573.

  • Mick Jagger My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Brody Jenner My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she's so giving and loving and sweet and she always raised me how to forgive and forget and move on. She's the catalyst behind it all, my mom is. And I'm 100% a momma's boy!
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Angela Carter My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Agnes Smedley My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Rodney Dangerfield My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej My mother praised me when I did something good, and then the next moment, she would say, 'Don't float.' She put me in a balloon and then pricked it.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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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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