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Mother Quotes
"She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."
155
"My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split."
85
"My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs."
80
"I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang."
79
"I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them."
78
"My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it."
72
"My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend."
58
"When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother."
52
"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."
51
"Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist."
49
"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."
48
"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."
46
"Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries."
46
"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
45
"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
44
"My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything."
42
"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."
41
"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
41
"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee."
40
"My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her."
38
"If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower."
38
"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder."
37
"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother."
36
"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done."
35
"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
34
"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."
34
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
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