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Mother Quotes
"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."
"My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York."
"I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her."
"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."
"It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all."
"Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me."
"My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that."
"Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport."
"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother."
"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."
"I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me."
"My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in."
"Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me."
"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."
"Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth."
"I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy."
"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true."
"We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance."
"I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock."
"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."
"There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do."
"I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father."
"The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them."
"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder."
"Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up."
"My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name."
"She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to."
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