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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.
When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.
My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.
I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.
Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother.
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter.
I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.
My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
My mother really was the strength in our family. She would sort of keep us in line and I admired her very much .
My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.
I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.
A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.
My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.
The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.
I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.
Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.
I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.
I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.
I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it [life] is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it.
We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things.
Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!
Honor the sacred. Honor the Earth, our Mother. Honor all with whom we share the Earth Walk in balance and beauty.
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.
Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.
My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.
I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.
Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.