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My mother was a seamstress, so I always grew up with her making clothes. I knew how to construct outfits. I knew how to sketch. I knew how to customise. But I could never imagine it as a career. Edward Enninful
Mother Clothes Outfits Construct Could Never Knew Always How Making Up Grew Sketch Her Career Imagine
My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school. Edward P. Jones
Teacher World School Mother Black Seen White Think High High School Had Almost Until Got Worked White World Lived Ever
My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices. Egon Schiele
Love Me Love Me Woman Strange Mother Understanding Would Would-Be Be Prepared Had Sacrifices She Make Understand Least Very Either Much Prepared
On the street where I lived, they almost didn't know the word 'university,' and my mother was simply appalled when it was suggested to her that I was to go to a drama college. Eileen Atkins
Mother Word College Drama Simply Almost Know Go Where Appalled Lived Street Her Suggested University
My grammar school caught on to the fact that the reason I was falling asleep in class was that I was doing working men's clubs till 10 or 11 at nights. My mother was told I shouldn't do it anymore. Of course, I was bringing in money to the family, so nobody liked hearing that. Eileen Atkins
Family Class Money School Mother Men Nights Fact Nobody Liked Course Till Caught Doing Falling Hearing Anymore Grammar Grammar School Clubs Asleep Working Reason Bringing
When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty. Elaine Chao
Liberty Mother Old Statue Statue Of Liberty Passed Came Arrived Years Sisters America Shores Which Boat
I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.' Elaine Stritch
Me Money Mother Care Once About Without Said Very Want Much Ever
One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried. Eleanor Porter
Day Me Tired You Mother Husband Unmarried One Day Married About Could Glad Like Talked Said Got Get Getting Getting Married Being Your
I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father. Eleanor Roosevelt
Natural Mother Father Think Born Am Wanted Anyone Ever
I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee. Elif Safak
Mother Single Independent Intriguing Find Perhaps Because Single Mother Feminist Up Families Did Grow Grow Up Raised
When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me. Elif Safak
Me Mother Old Language Before Stayed Learned Years Moved Spain Spanish English English Language
I was lucky in the sense that I started work very young but had a solid family base provided by my mother. She instilled a strong sense of perspective and humility in me from a very early age. Elijah Wood
Work Family Me Age Strong Mother Perspective Young Sense Humility Solid Strong Sense Had Instilled She Provided Very Very Early Age Lucky Base Early Started Early Age
In my business - SAT tutoring - you get used to sighs. A client's mother frets over the sheer amount of work her daughter has to do to get her score up, until she reaches the resigned moment when she will sigh and observe that no one thought you could prepare for the SAT back when she took it - it was 'untutorable.' Eliot Schrefer
Work You Business Mother Will Thought Daughter Took Back Sigh Sighs Could No-One Observe Over Until She Sheer Client Fret Score Up Get Used Moment Sat Prepare Her Amount Resigned
The best Mother's Day gift I ever got was just a full day with the kids where they did their mommy pampering. They cut cucumbers and put them on my eyes and my daughter gave me a facial. I'm not even sure what was in it! Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Best Day Me Eyes Gift Mother Daughter Gave Kids Facial Put Sure Got Did Just Where Them Cut Full Mommy Even Ever
I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life Time Generation Experience Mother My Life More Goal Realize Produce Next Next Generation Molded Less Help Fully Profoundly
I purely attribute my 'hamming it up' quality to growing up with three older brothers and just being like a tomboy my whole life. Literally, my mother had to be like, 'Honey, there's a certain point where you have to start wearing a shirt.' You know, I would run around with the boys and play tag football and climb trees. Eliza Dushku
Life You Quality Mother Three Older Trees Honey Run Would Wearing Purely Brothers Tag Point Had Football Like Know Attribute Around Boy Climb Up Shirt Just Being Where Literally Certain Certain Point Whole Older Brothers Growing Growing Up Tomboy Play Start
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron. Eliza Dushku
Science Mother Political Parents Born Mormon Divorced Like Sort Feminist Political Science Oxymoron Which Professor
My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries. Eliza Dushku
Time Mother Other Other Countries Several Would Brought Russia Take Students Had Countries Along Always Been Different China Different Countries Us Nicaragua Groups By The Time
I think people hear and feel the genuine nature of my passion for the causes. Specifically, with the non-profit in Uganda, my mother is the president, and she was an African politics professor for almost 50 years, so I think people know that I align myself with people who know what they're talking about. Eliza Dushku
Politics Myself Nature People Mother Passion Think President Align About Almost Feel Know She Talking Genuine Uganda Causes Hear Years African Who Professor Specifically
As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom. Elizabeth Berg
Christmas Me Joy Mother Thought Year Down Every Tree Rug Bathroom Saw Touch Never Had Towels Involved House Make Sure Occurred Hand Labor Privilege Child Hang Tinsel Room Strand Prepare
No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person. Elizabeth Berg
Grateful Mother Kind She Am Person Did Endlessly Different Different Kind Who Deeply
My mother and her five sisters have always been living examples of the great love that can exist among sisters - and in a large family. Elizabeth Berg
Love Great Family Mother Living Great Love Examples Always Been Exist Five Sisters Large Large Family Among Her
I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and great grandfather on my mother's side were geologists. Elizabeth Blackburn
Great Family Mother Parents Side City Born Small Physicians Great-Grandfather Were Australia Grandfather
There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Man Woman Mother Sense Would Would-Be Insisting More He She Because Limitations Than Cannot
My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents. Elizabeth Diller
Family Mother Father Mother And Father Out Uncles Through Wiped Never Had Knowing Been Aunts Up Grew Holocaust Grandparents
My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them. Elizabeth Edwards
Mother Opportunity Job Every See Daughters Make Sure Children Available Them Every Opportunity
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