Mother

Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author

Mother

"You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment."

Mother Earth Environment

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Kathleen Parker Journalist

Mother

"Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself."

Mother Should Have League

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Gene Wilder Actor, comedian

Mother

"I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life."

Way Mother Suffering

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LeBron James Professional Basketball Player

Mother

"I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way."

Mother Basketball Blessed

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Keith Emerson Musician

Mother

"I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time."

Mother Suitable I Love My Mother

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor

Mother

"My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid."

Kids Mother Distance

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Mother

"Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary."

Children Mother Teaching

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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer

Mother

"My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting."

Mother Acting Dancer

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Kelly Carlin-McCall Comedian

Mother

"My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that.""

Mother Laughing Healing

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher

Mother

"Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven."

Men Mother Heaven

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George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter

Mother

"It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear by the Mother of Mountains and the Womb of the World. Before I am done with them, Mago and Ko Jhaqo will plead for the mercy they showed Eroeh."

Mother Horse Fate

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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor

Mother

"To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses."

Mean Mother Philosophy

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Leslie Jordan Actor, Comedian

Mother

"I was raised in a religion that I never felt embraced me. That wasn't her fault. I had this amazing childhood. My mother is of her generation. If I'm going to ask her to accept me exactly as I am, I have to give her the same. She has read part of the book, but my sisters told her which chapters not to read!"

Giving Book Mother

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor

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"My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work."

Years Mother Doors

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

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"Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them."

Mother Women Despise

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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician

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"it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it."

Mother Sound Heartbreaking

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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician

Mother

"and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last."

World Mother Leaving

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Kiki Smith Artist

Mother

"In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing."

Art Mother Father

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Kim Harrison Author

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"I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.” “Mine, too,” Jenks muttered."

People Mother Scare

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Jane Austen Novelist

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"Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again."

Years Mother Son

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