Quotes: mothers
Quotes 1 till 15 of 50.
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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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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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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'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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Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'.Source: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964) -
Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
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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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God forgive us—but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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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 appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
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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 think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
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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.
