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" Quotes and Sayings About my mother

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.

Very Beautiful Good Play
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Independent Person Own Lady
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There's random people calling my phone: 'Your mother gave me your number.' My mother has tried to set me up so many times long-distance.

Mother People Random Time
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Mother Always Intolerant Ignorance
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When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Child Soldier General Monk
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'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Anyone Because Before Behind
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I’m 23 years old. I might just be my mother’s child, but in all reality, I’m everybody’s child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

Child Reality Raise Society
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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.

Agreement Father Mother Taught
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

Scary Helpers People Mother
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My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.

Father Hard Joke Just
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

Always Been Like Mother
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

Almost Bed Before Gone
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My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

Age Company Define Keep
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My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

Ever Known Life Like
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There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart.

Break Ever Heart Mother
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My mother taught me not to take any crap from anyone and to stand up for my rights. You might not believe this lesson came from a tiny Japanese woman, but it's true.

Any Anyone Believe Came
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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Case Country Desperate Drunk
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Culture Defined Doubts Ever
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My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

Actually Always Child Could
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Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

Difficult Extremely Faced Faith
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As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.

Mother Name Night Praying
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My mother is a walking miracle.
Miracle Mother Family Walking
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.

About Am Breakfast Dinner
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My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

Alone Feel Kid Little
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My mother was a - she worked at a halfway house. And one of the former inmates slid me a mix-tape full of different hip-hop songs. And so that was my first kind of experience with rap music.

Different Experience First Former
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My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.

Call Childhood Family Family And Friends
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This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Believed Could Deeply Enjoyed
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My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off.

Arm Child Fall Her
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I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

All Day Aunt Day Games
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I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

Comfort Comfort Zone Fail Good
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

Baptist Father Methodist Mother
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

1960s Am Both Civil
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I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Any Dad Had He
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My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.

My Mother Has Always
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My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

Allowed Choir Church College
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My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

Am Her I Am Just
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My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

Being Born College Go
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I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power.

Child Chose Could Denied
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My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played trumpet for nine years. One day, my mother explained, 'You can't be Miles Davis. There's one, and he's got that job.'

Ambition Become Davis Day
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If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

Also Beauty Creativity Editor
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We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

April Birthday Birthdays Born
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Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?

About American Ask Documentation
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My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

Anything Basically Birth Childbirth
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My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

Fed Friend Liked Me
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My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

After Born Had I Was Born
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I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Feed Me Mother Shot
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When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

Born Doctor I Was Born Mother
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

Caught Cure Died Disease
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My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

After Born Days Did
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My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

Card Disappointment Her Influence
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