Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.

Nina Simone

Emotional Difficulties Mother Singing

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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

Nina Simone

Three Playing Piano Onstage

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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

Naomi Watts

Biggest Girl Grow Grow Up

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My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

Victoria Wood

Anything Believe Bother Feel

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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

V.S. Naipaul

Almost AlmostNothing Beyond Child

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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

V.S. Naipaul

Ancestry Beyond Blurred Cannot

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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

Nas

Because Daughters Fatherhood Help

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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Killing Professional Soldiers War.people

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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Noam Chomsky

Increase Drug Crime Immigrants

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I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

George Takei

Comedy Funny Good Humor

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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Barbra Streisand

Because Detailed English EnglishTeacher

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I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizen.

Vladimir Putin

Citizen Family Father Mother

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I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

Vladimir Putin

Read Book People Motherland

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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

Vidal Sassoon

Mother Premonition Felt Good

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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Vidal Sassoon

Mother Idea Feeling

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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

Vidal Sassoon

Never Argued Mother Win

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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

Abigail Van Buren

Women Miscalculate Mothers

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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Benjamin Disraeli

Diligence Fortune Good GoodFortune

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Benjamin Disraeli

Mother Silence Truth

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An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Benjamin Disraeli

About Almost Author Bad

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I always loved fashion. My mother was a fashion designer, so it was always in my blood.

Melania Trump

Always Blood Designer Fashion

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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes The Strength Motherhood

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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it.

Barbara Kingsolver

Count All The Way

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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Barbara Kingsolver

Motherhood So Sentimentalised Romanticism

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A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Pope Francis

Any Attention Before Church

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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

Ice T

Angeles Aunt Father Grade

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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Camille Paglia

Against Back Falls Define

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Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Eminem

Now That Understand Addict

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The world is a scary place. Even my mother has suggested I take a self defense class.

Iliza Shlesinger

World Scary Mother Suggested

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My mother always told me that you should have one room in your house where you celebrate all of your achievements. You shouldn't have them spread throughout.

Iliza Shlesinger

Achievements Always Celebrate House

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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

Ina May Gaskin

Birth Complications Europe Find

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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

Irving Stone

About Deep Father Fear

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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

John F. Kennedy

Mothers Sons Grow President

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I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.

Jidenna

Was Raised Nigeria My

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When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me.

Jidenna

When Originally Came To

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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

Iman

Actively Activist Came Father

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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Hubert Humphrey

Stands Man Every Behind

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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Benjamin Lincoln

Mother Prayers Followed Clung

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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Benjamin Lincoln

I Hope Angel Mother

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A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

Banksy

Mothers Do Children Themselves

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My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

Carrie Fisher

Always Buddy Cameras Career

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I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

Celine Dion

More Successful Mother Show

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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Child Get Glad Him

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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Chanakya

Good Wife Serve Husband

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I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

Celine Dion

Business Family Liked Love

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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

Carrie Fisher

Bad Everything Great Happen

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If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.

Carrie Fisher

Anything How Me Mother

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I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

Carrie Fisher

Act Doing Fright Had

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If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.

Wallace Stegner

You Avoid Killer Degenerative

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â€œSee all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.â€

Neem Karoli Baba

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Nina Simone

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

Nina Simone

The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

Naomi Watts

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

Victoria Wood

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

V.S. Naipaul

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

V.S. Naipaul

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

Nas

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Norman Schwarzkopf

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Noam Chomsky

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

George Takei

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Barbra Streisand

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizen.

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

Vidal Sassoon

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Vidal Sassoon

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

Vidal Sassoon

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

Abigail Van Buren

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Benjamin Disraeli

I always loved fashion. My mother was a fashion designer, so it was always in my blood.

Melania Trump

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it.

Barbara Kingsolver

Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Barbara Kingsolver

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Pope Francis

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

Ice T

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Camille Paglia

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Eminem

Iliza Shlesinger

My mother always told me that you should have one room in your house where you celebrate all of your achievements. You shouldn't have them spread throughout.

Iliza Shlesinger

If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

Ina May Gaskin

Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

Irving Stone

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

John F. Kennedy

I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.

Jidenna

When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me.

Jidenna

My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

Iman

Hubert Humphrey

Benjamin Lincoln

Benjamin Lincoln

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

Banksy

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

Carrie Fisher

â€œSee all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.â€