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Ray Bradbury Author
Mother

"There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future."

Mother Race Women
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Ray Bradbury Author
Mother

"Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?"

Running Mother Wall
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Ray Bradbury Author
Mother

"MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go and come back, bring lots of kids. Let them run wild. Let me spoil them, some day. JIM: I'm never going to own anything that can hurt me."

Running Mother Hurt
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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
Mother

"Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce."

Mother Fall New York
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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
Mother

"When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career."

Mother Memories Commitment
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Mother

"My father is from Copenhagen and he lived there until he was in his late 20s. We always grew up with a lot of Danish culture at home. My mother is Jewish but we always celebrated Christmas because we loved the traditions of Danish Christmas."

Home Mother Father
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Mother

"Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor."

Mother Educational Drawing
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Mother

"Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country."

Country Mind Mother
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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
Mother

"In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd. Incongruously enough, however, when we allow ourselves to fully accept uncertainty, to embrace and cultivate it even, then we actually can begin to feel within ourselves the presence of an Absolute. The person who cannot welcome ambiguity cannot welcome God."

World Mother Hazards
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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
Mother

"So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life."

Mother Father Life Changing
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Tracy Chapman Singer-Songwriter
Mother

"As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot."

Thinking Children Mother
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Tracy Austin Tennis Player
Mother

"Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind."

Mother Winning Second Chance
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Tracy Morgan Comedian, Actor
Mother

"My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career."

Mother Father Brother
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Tracy Pollan Actress
Mother

"I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened."

Mother Insane Mets
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Tracy Pollan Actress
Mother

"I would follow my mother around the kitchen watching and trying to find any way to help. One of the first dishes my mother taught me to make was hollandaise sauce. Though she always served it with broccoli, I soon realized it was equally delicious with asparagus, artichokes, or any other vegetable."

Mother Kitchen Vegetables
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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Mother

"It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And watching the media report all kinds of lies about me, like that I got raped in jail. That never happened. But at least while I was locked down, all the inmates gave me props encouragement, and so did lots of mothers and kids, who wrote me letters of support."

Lying Mother Encouragement
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Tyson Gay Athlete
Mother

"My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes."

Mother Daughter Athlete
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