Quotes: mothers
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
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I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
Source: The Conduct of Life (1860) Fate
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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
