3696 Mother Quotes for You to Enjoy

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one. Derek Walcott

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My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct. Derek Walcott

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars. Derek Walcott

Book Mother First Cost Poems Dollars Privately Published

My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress, she still had to do a lot of sewing. The more I think about her, the more remarkable I realise she was. And she understood straight away when I said that I wanted to write. Derek Walcott

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My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up. Deron Williams

Mother Were Huge Up Fan Team Growing Growing Up

My dad worked on ambulances for a while; my mother had a lot of different jobs with the city. Desiigner

Mother Jobs City Had Lot Different While Worked Dad

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's. Desmond Dekker

Me Mother Father Took Mary Taken Died Then Ill

I grew up on the south side of Chicago, most of that time on welfare. My mother and sister and I used to live with my grandparents and various cousins. We shared a two-bedroom tenement, and the three of us slept in one of those bedrooms and had a set of bunk beds. Deval Patrick

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I can be a nag. And my mother can be a nag. It's a nagging relationship, but we know that it's loving. Diana DeGarmo

Relationship Mother Nag Know Loving

I believe that you should not be just raised on what the music is right then. You should be raised on what is from your past, what your parents have grown up with, because it's a really big piece of your culture that you need to know about, and I'm glad my mother has done that for me. Diana DeGarmo

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I need that hug from my mom. She's the Latin mother that hugs you and says all these sweet things to you in Spanish. It's just comforting. She also gives me that strength. Diana Lopez

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Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck. Diana Lopez

You Mother Will Nervous Sit Down Back Wreck Fingernails She Because Children Next Your Her Compete Watching

If people look at me and, certainly, my brothers, and they see strength and guts, they'd have to know my parents. If they wanted to know why we're so close as a family, that closeness comes from my mother and father. Diana Lopez

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My mother was the oldest of nine children, five boys and four girls, so she had experience sharing responsibility for a large, sometimes loud group of kids. Diana Lopez

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I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face for a special occasion. As I get older, I see less of the fantasy 'Indian' self I inherited from my father, and I see my mother looking back at me. Diana Quick

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When I was growing up and trying to get my foot on the ladder, I had the self-belief that my mother taught me, and it never occurred to me that anything could go wrong. I've learned life can't be like that. Diana Quick

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother. Diana Ross

Mother Thought Single Adopting Single Mother Child Even

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable. Diane Abbott

Mother Jim Hated Unbearable Records He Liked His

Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn't matter whose body is whose. Diane Ackerman

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In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful. Diane Black

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The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about. Diane Cilento

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives. Diane Keaton

Mother Everyone Write Said Always Autobiography Required Should Lives

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life. Diane Keaton

Life Mother Approaches More Practical

I keep trying to perfect my mother's meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I'm getting closer. Diane Sawyer

Mother Will Recipe Perfect Never Get Trying Closer Getting Keep

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life. Diane Setterfield

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