Albert Einstein
Physicist
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."
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Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
"I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life."
J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream."
Ellen DeGeneres
Comedian, Television Host
"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."
Johnny Depp
Actor, Producer
"One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said "Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock."
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"If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent."
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"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
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"The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small."
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"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's."
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"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
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"My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me."
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"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."
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"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent."
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"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother."
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"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out."
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"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago."
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"My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully."
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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
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"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
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"Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."
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"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."
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"There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world"
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"A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters."
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"A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future."
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"I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope."
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