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The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

A child cannot pay for its mother's milk

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; m...

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That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth I listened to D...

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My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...

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My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to gi...

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The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until ...

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Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I ki...

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My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and t...

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Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discern...

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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about...

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I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so...

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Papi, I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter what I do, Pilar hates me....

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I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, ...

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A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The ch...

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My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Pr...

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It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t...

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Daphne du MaurierDon't Look Now and Other Stories

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest tri...

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My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take m...

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The mother at thirty with face commencing to display the faint seams of the plan for the second face...

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There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your pl...

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Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly...

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My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to ...

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I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.

I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly di...

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As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "S...

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No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like ...

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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jes...

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My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imp...

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My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and work...

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My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important le...

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My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied archi...

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Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

And as much as I wanted to, I knew I couldn't turn around, that to look at her directly was to viola...

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And though it's a bleak thing to admit all these years later, still I've never met anyone who made m...

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I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. L...

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Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job...

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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most usefu...

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I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experie...

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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thin...

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I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education....

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Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terribl...

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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense l...

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Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work...

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When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if...

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When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we ...

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Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution...

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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary...

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It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. ...

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What does it say?" asked my lord."It says, `Good-night, God keep you all the night!'--just what she ...

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Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle Lord Fauntleroy

Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my liv...

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When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn...

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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civili...

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Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I gu...

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Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is...

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Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.”“Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.

Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind ...

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Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he wou...

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There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal...

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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my succe...

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Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marve...

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For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and,...

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Glenn BeckThe 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianis...

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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I believe that it should be the blessing of every child to be born into a home where that child is w...

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I hope that you mothers will realize that when all is said and done, you have no more compelling res...

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When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

She was no longer the fair-haired, colourless girl whom I had seen at the church fifteen years befor...

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The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.

All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly ...

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Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence. She was a Graham from Montgomery; Attic...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

A mother is a mother still The holiest thing alive.

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain g...

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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Tonight, tonight we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union: the fi...

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but s...

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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said...

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