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 | "A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest,
accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it." | |
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Marcelene Cox
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| "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Josiah G.
Holland, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 23 (1866), and George Alfred
Townsend, The Real Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 6 (1867). According to the
latter, Lincoln made this remark to his law p" | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man
does. That"s his." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers
with ease." | |
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Lisa Alther
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| "I and a woman whose color and cheeks shall have become black from
toiling in the sun shall be near to one another in the next world as my
two fingers; and that is a handsome widow, whose color and cheeks shall
have become black in bringing up her family." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "I can remember the first time I had to go to sleep. Mom said,
"Steven, time to go to sleep." I said, "But I don"t know how." She said,
"It"s real easy. Just go down to the end of tired and hang a left." So I
went down to the end of tired, and just out of curiosity I hung a right.
My mother was there, and she said "I thought I told you to go to
sleep."" | |
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Steven Wright
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| "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and my
father." | |
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Greg Norman
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| "I think we"re seeing in working mothers a change from "Thank God
it"s Friday" to "Thank God it"s Monday." If any working mother has not
experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent." | |
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Ann Diehl
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| "Men are what their mothers made them." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Mom and apple pie." | |
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Proverb
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| "More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more,
motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive,
responsible." | |
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Tillie Olsen
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| "Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a
revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it
does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why
they were invented in the first place." | |
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Angela Carter
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| "My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a
general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a
painter, and became Picasso." | |
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Pablo Picasso
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| "Nature"s loving proxy, the watchful mother." | |
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Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
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| "The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and
when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the
mothers of men." | |
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Joaquin Miller
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| "The hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the
world." | |
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William Ross Wallace
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| "To reform a man you must begin with his grandmother." | |
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Victor Hugo
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| "What do girls do who haven"t any mothers to help them through their
troubles?" | |
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Louisa May Alcott
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| "When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction,
and framed it quickly ? so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul,
power, and beauty, was the conception." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers
of gold. Richer than I you can never be ? I had a mother who read to
me." | |
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Strickland Gillian
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