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Mother Quotes

My father was from Belfast; my mother was from Crossmolina. I grew up in Dublin.

Father Mother Up Dublin Grew

Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I all worked for him, and he treated us just beautifully, almost like a father. When I went with my mother up to his office, he was always gentlemanly and kindly. He was sort of a quiet person.

Doris Eaton Travis

Family Father Mother Brother Person

Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.

Love Success Mother Dreams Freedom

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Mother Woman Fool Man Boy Him

I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be a mother who is there for your child, then you have to make sure that when you do spend time together, you're really there for them.

Mother Time Together Balance Child

My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.

Mother World She Magical Most

My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.

Michael Rispoli

Work Family Father Mother Doctor

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

Family Love Mother I Am Me Sorry

My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.

Mother Born Detroit Raised Actually

She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.

Mother Art Me Lesson Clean She

I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.

Mother American Down Person Street

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

Love Mother Child Society Strong

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

Father Mother Food Deep Philosophy

I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

Sheryl Sandberg

Mother Myself Choices Believe Choose

I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything.

Life Father Mother God Me Thought

My mother was my first and most important influence. When I was a little girl, she would take me shopping for pigments that flattered dark skin tones, mixing and playing until she'd created her ideal shade.

Mother Girl Me Influence Shopping

I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.

Life Mother Time Brother Everything

No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

Life Father Mother Music Time Best

I know that is what I was put on Earth to do - to be a mother.

Mother Earth Know Put

I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.

Mother America She Watch Call Field

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Mother Technology Play Invention

My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family.

Family Father Mother Girl Me Bank

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Wallace Stevens

Beauty Mother Dreams Alone Death

Even though I'm not with their mother, it's important for my kids to see adults in a committed and happy relationship. They need to see a strong relationship. You don't have to settle.

Michael Strahan

Mother Relationship Happy Strong You

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