Maya Angelou Quotes, Mother Quotes, Teacher Quotes

When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Daughter Quotes , Mother Quotes

The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother's prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Mother Quotes , Prayer Quotes

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Mother Quotes , School Quotes

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Mother Quotes , Dad Quotes

My mother says to me, when I'm making a new movie, she says, "Oh, is Steve Buscemi in it?" I'd say, "Yeah." And she, "Oh, then it's going to be a good one." I swear to God, she says that every time. And when I say Steve's not in it, she says, "Oh."

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Tags : Adam Sandler Quotes , Mother Quotes , Swear To God Quotes

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

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Necessity, thou mother of the world!

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Mother Quotes

When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Mother Quotes , Father Quotes

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.

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Tags : Aimee Bender Quotes , Mother Quotes , Air Quotes

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Birthday Quotes , Mother Quotes

All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Mother Quotes , Should Have Quotes

Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Mother Quotes , Sea Quotes

A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Mother Quotes , Peace Quotes

I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Mother Quotes , Thinking Quotes

You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Mother Quotes , Jobs Quotes

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Mother Quotes , Lonely Quotes

So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well.

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The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Mother Quotes , Principles Quotes