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Tag Name "Mother" (6440)

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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
Victor Hugo
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I sat around the kitchen every Sunday afternoon listening to my mother and aunts talk about the people in the neighborhood. Gossip - I loved it. And that turns out to be the writer's job: to attend to the gossip and spread it as far as you can.
John Dufresne
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My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
Anita Roddick
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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.
Mark Twain
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
Victor Hugo
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
Victor Hugo
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I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.
Judy Blume
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In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.
Kiki Smith
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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
Anita Diament
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It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.
Anita Diament
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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
Anita Diament
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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
Anita Diament
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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
Anita Baker
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
Victor Hugo
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
Victor Hugo
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I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant. It's nice, the pace of being pregnant it gives you a long time to not just germinate a baby but germinate the mother that you're gonna be.
Ani DiFranco
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Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
John Calvin
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The father is the head of the home the mother is the heart of the home the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home.
Angus Buchan
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I got my bearings, I began to focus. My mother was very supportive. When I came back to New York I landed a job at Hot 97.
Angie Martinez
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All mothers go through the exact same things.
Angie Harmon
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It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.
Angie Harmon
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Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?
Trey Parker
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I cry secretly. I don't really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it's not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big.
Angelina Jolie
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Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I'm basically a natural blonde.
Angelina Jolie
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