"A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive."
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"I had this wonderful, supportive mother who didn't get mad because of all the earth mucking up my bed. She just said they'd die - they needed the earth."
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"The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt."
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"Little brothers ring fingers get cut up to show mothers they really got em."
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"I have never felt any connection with my family. There isI must say simplysomething in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin."
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"Rodney the ghoul?...Oh, I liked him. He didn't get angry no matter how many times my mother insulted him."
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"You don't have body parts there do you?" my mother interrupted. "I don't want to open the fridge and find a head on the shelf" Rodney laughed. "No Justina, it doesn't look like Jeffrey Dahmer's hideaway."
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"My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, think I' turning my back on her and becoming a foreigner.' Cathy, that's the stupidest reason I've ever heard."
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"On having a child: This is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to us. But I don't want to bring my daughter into a world where I'm not comfortable telling everyone who I am and who her mother is."
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"I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else."
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"I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the family look special and making my mother feel better and I really wanted to make people happy. That has been my ministry my whole life. I call it The Church of F.F.C. - The Church of Freedom From Concern. And I'm a high priest in that church."
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"Nobody else cares about you at the beginning of your career except you-and, of course, your mother. Your mother is there because that is what mothers do."
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"My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it."
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"I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own."
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"I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better."
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"Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement."
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"In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers."
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"Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956."
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"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?"
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"But mothers lie. It's in the job description."
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