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My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron
About
Basically
Believed
Cook
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My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
Nora Ephron
Comic
Day
Life
Mother
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Nora Ephron
About
Believed
Cooking
Else
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Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
Elizabeth Moon
Mother
Interestingly enough
Feminist
Mind
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
Patti Smith
Always
Childhood
Financial
Great
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My mother answers all my fan mail.
Patti Smith
Answers
Fan
FanMail
Mail
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Pete Seeger
Academia
Father
Good
His
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
Paul McCartney
Because
Died
District
Her
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I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
Peter Tosh
Father
Here
Jah
Mother
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My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'
Peter Tosh
About
Anything
Country
Father
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I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.
Peter Tosh
Aunt
Because
Encouraged
Family
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I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.
Gene Wilder
Something really
Beautiful
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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.
R. L. Stine
Before
Believe
Day
Every
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Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner
Air
Build
Castles
Live
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My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.
Rita Rudner
Buried
Husbands
Mother
Napping
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My - both my sisters died with pancreatic cancer. My brother died with pancreatic cancer. My daddy died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died with breast cancer.
Jimmy Carter
Both
Breast Cancer
Brother
Cancer
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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
Rita Dove
Chemist
Could
Ends
Exciting
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Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.
Rita Rudner
After
Before
Better
Day
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My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.
Lauren Graham
Got
Had
Little
Lived
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Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
Robert Cormier
Always
Bleak
Family
Family Life
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne
About
Both
Bound
Duty
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Wendy Luhabe
Young people
Financial management
Live
Means
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I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.
Johnny Cash
Along
Boy
Guitar
Her
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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.
Jamaica Kincaid
Became
Brother
Distinguished
Her
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I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.
Jamaica Kincaid
Ate
Because
Birth
Candidate
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At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.
Jamaica Kincaid
Adored
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Enormous
Everyone
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I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.
Ronaldinho
Am
Because
Brother
Education
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Ronaldinho
Am
Because
Brother
Education
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My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
James Cameron
Also
Artist
Electrical
Engineer
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My mother, Ms. Nippy Carville, was a woman of many talents.
James Carville
Many
Mother
Ms
Talents
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I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.
Humphrey Bogart
Ever loved
My mother
Admired her
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My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.
Jane Fonda
Complete
Her
Herself
I Can
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As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.
Jane Goodall
Africa
Any
Child
College
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My mother taught me to only worry about things you can do something about.
Christoffel Wiese
My mother
Taught me
Worry
Things
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I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
Tom Cruise
Always around
My mother
Sisters
Father
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I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.
Tiger Woods
Hurt
My wife
Kids
My foundation
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I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
Aleister Crowley
A poet
My lies
The way
My mother
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For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
Amy Tan
My mother
Not believe
Be anything
Be me
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Was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees,
Anna Sewell
Young
I lived
Mother's milk
Eat grass
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Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
Anne Lamott
Mothers
Listen
Respond
Wisdom
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There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me.
Christina Applegate
Sacrifices
Mother makes
Raising
A child
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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
Chuck D
My mother
University
My father
Very educated
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people,unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Be intolerant
Ignorance
Understanding
Of illiteracy
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My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
Whitney Houston
Mother
Stand in
Truth
Lie
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Whitney Houston
Mother
Beauty
Lives
Smile
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My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils
Whoopi Goldberg
Mother
Stop
Word
Power
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My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Wilma Rudolph
Never
Walk
Mother
Believed
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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
Wilma Rudolph
Mother
Believe
Achieve
Accomplishmet
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What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change
Jeanne Moreau
Woman
Age
World
Changing
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My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.
Joe Montana
Taught
Never quit
Strive
Best
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