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Mother Quotes
"An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons."
"Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too."
"Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's."
"Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly."
"My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S."
"My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her."
"The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up."
"Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics."
"The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name."
"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
"My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York."
"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."
"Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes."
"Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully."
"The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre."
"My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."
"I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children."
"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her."
"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."
"My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection."
"Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating."
"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them."
"I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name."
"There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video."
"A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes."
"My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres."
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