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I have a very non-existent, dysfunctional relationship with my biological mother.
Antoni Porowski
Relationship
Mother
Non-Existent
Very
Dysfunctional
Biological
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
Antonia Fraser
Education
Woman
Women
Doctor
Human Being
Mother
Own
Has-Been
Strongly
Having
Advantage
Undergraduate
She
Been
Human
Oxford
Being
Who
Believed
Her
Early
Life lives on life - it is cruel, but it is God's will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren't little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Life
God
Time
Good
Mother
Will
Animals
Young
Our
Those
Thousand
Would
Would-Be
Eat
More
Cruel
Course
Because
Were
Up
Than
Little
Choked
Each
Lives
It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.
Antony Beevor
Family
Army
Writing
Arrogance
Mother
Try
Job
Thought
Long
Out
Boring
Having
Only
Long Line
Writers
Had
Partly
Because
Line
Been
Years
Very
Five
After
Place
Youthful
Novel
Why
Why Not
Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.
Anu Garg
Me
Mother
Though
Part
Hindi
Mother Tongue
Still
Get
Often
Use
Even
Tongue
I don't like to talk about my personal life, so I will not talk about others. I don't give advice. I give advice to only my mother, father, and brother on health.
Anushka Sharma
Life
Health
Mother
Father
Will
Advice
Personal Life
Others
Brother
About
Give
Only
Like
Talk
Personal
My mother was really courageous.
Ara Parseghian
Mother
Courageous
Really
A mother isn't someone who does it on purpose; mothers are who they are, and just by existing, they affect the way other people negotiate with the environment and with themselves.
Arca
People
Mother
Other
Way
Negotiate
Someone
Purpose
Environment
Does
Mothers
Affect
Existing
Just
Themselves
Who
There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'
Archie Panjabi
Saying
You
Marriage
Mother
Big
Enough
Meet
Introduce
Marry
About
Someone
Misconception
Fair
Like
Arranged
Yes
Going
Mean
Them
Then
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
Arianna Huffington
Mom
Mother
Become
Way
Indeed
Embrace
Fearless
Give
Uncertainty
Imperfection
Perfectionism
Perfectly
Idea
Doing
Up
Break
Cycle
Fastest
I think she's the foundation of everything I've done. I think, definitely, my mother's fear of failure helps make me more resilient and helps make me persevere.
Arianna Huffington
Me
Failure
Fear
Mother
Think
Everything
Definitely
More
She
Make
Persevere
Done
Helps
Foundation
Resilient
For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.
Ariel Levy
Life
Experience
Mother
Somebody
My Life
Minutes
Both
Most
Also
Transcendent
Traumatic
I have always maintained that the only group I belong to consists of my family, my wife Lily, my mother, my sons Omri and Gilad.
Ariel Sharon
Family
Mother
Wife
Group
Consists
Only
Sons
Maintained
Lily
Always
Belong
I look like my mother but behave like my father.
Arjun Kapoor
Mother
Father
Like
Look
Behave
I am resilient like my mother and have the ability to face any kind of storm.
Arjun Kapoor
Mother
Face
Kind
Ability
Like
Am
Any
Storm
Resilient
When 'Ishaqzaade' released, I was going through hell. It didn't matter what I said or did, because I had lost my mother.
Arjun Kapoor
Mother
Matter
Lost
Hell
Released
Through
Had
Because
Said
Did
Going
I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background.
Arlo Guthrie
Mother
Father
Parents
Single
Think
Dancer
Background
Martha
Classical
Totally
Had
Shared
Because
Opposite
Were
Graham
Interesting
Much
Unit
My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are.
Arlo Guthrie
Good
Me
Feel Good
People
Obligation
Mother
Matter
Father
Singing
Live
Kind
About
Only
Feel
Make
End
Person
Wanted
Who
Description
Creed
The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.
Art Donovan
Life
Mother
My Life
Football
Saddest
Were
Died
Anymore
Moments
Play
Play Football
Two
My own mother is very accomplished and makes things like bahar breads as though they are going out of fashion - they are like stuffed parathas and can contain anything from potatoes to poppy seeds.
Art Malik
Fashion
Mother
Own
Though
Out
Seeds
My Own
Potatoes
Contain
Stuffed
Like
Makes
Accomplished
Very
Going
Anything
Poppy
Things
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
Arthur Golden
Time
Writing
Mother
Thought
Reading
Met
Living
Kind
Geisha
About
Fellow
Because
Subject
Up
Ended
Same
Getting
Just
Same Time
Fiction
Interested
Japan
Fascinating
Whose
My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children.
Arthur Lewis
Success
Love
Age
Mother
Father
Seven
Seventeen
Sons
Combined
Most
Make
Known
Gentleness
Leaving
Five
Person
Died
Children
Working
Each
Ever
Hardest
Her
Widow
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
Arthur Rock
Generation
Mother
Father
First
Immigrant
Russia
First Generation
To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Mother
Other
Tools
Learned
Working
Help
Helper
Workshop
Started
My mother was progressive in her thinking.
Asha Bhosle
Mother
Thinking
Progressive
Her
I'm a hockey coach and a single mother of two who commutes. I don't watch TV. I watch news, and that's it!
Ashleigh Banfield
News
Mother
Single
TV
Single Mother
Hockey
Coach
Who
Watch
Two
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