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Small: My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it
"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it"
Quentin Crisp, Writer
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Small: Getting caught is the mother of invention
Robert Byrne
"Getting caught is the mother of invention"
Robert Byrne, Celebrity
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Small: With each piece Ive completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. Its li
Twyla Tharp
"With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances"
Twyla Tharp, Dancer
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Small: I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, Please dont write dow
"I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'"
Barbara Boxer, Politician
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Small: I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was the man goes on top and the woman underneath. For
Joan Rivers
"I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds"
Joan Rivers, Comedian
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Small: Im not Mother Teresa, but Im not Charles Manson, either
Mike Tyson
"I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either"
Mike Tyson, Athlete
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Small: Most mothers are instinctive philosophers
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers"
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author
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Small: I do not like broccoli. And I havent liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And Im Pr
"I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli"
George H. W. Bush, President
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Small: I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars
E. M. Forster
"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
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Small: Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know its the most exqui
"Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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Small: Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of
Miguel de Cervantes
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
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Small: I believe theres no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience,
Miguel de Cervantes
"I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
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Small: When the baby dies, On every side Rose strangers voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in
"When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery"
Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer
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Small: The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to
Mother Teresa
"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between"
Mother Teresa, Leader
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Small: Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swal
Camille Paglia
"Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up"
Camille Paglia, Author
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Small: Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively w
Frederick Sanger
"Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer"
Frederick Sanger, Scientist
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Small: When your mother asks, Do you want a piece of advice? it is a mere formality. It doesnt matter if you answer y
Erma Bombeck
"When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway"
Erma Bombeck, Journalist
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Small: Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen
Erma Bombeck
"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you"
Erma Bombeck, Journalist
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Small: Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes
Erma Bombeck
"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"
Erma Bombeck, Journalist
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Small: I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do
Erma Bombeck
"I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order"
Erma Bombeck, Journalist
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Small: Theres something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after shes only measur
Erma Bombeck
"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it"
Erma Bombeck, Journalist
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Small: The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are
"The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult"
Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer
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Small: I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But
"I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife"
Patti Smith, Musician
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Small: My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere
John Barrymore
"My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere"
John Barrymore, Actor
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Small: My mother answers all my fan mail
"My mother answers all my fan mail"
Patti Smith, Musician
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Small: At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers
"At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers"
Kathleen Turner, Actress
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Small: By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great
"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class"
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer
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Small: My family, frankly, they werent folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual p
Barack Obama
"My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead"
Barack Obama, President
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Small: If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o mine, O mother o mine! I know whose love would follow me still
"If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!"
Rudyard Kipling, Writer
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Small: If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o mine o mother o mine
"If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine"
Rudyard Kipling, Writer
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Small: Mothers are the necessity of invention
"Mothers are the necessity of invention"
Bill Watterson, Cartoonist
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Small: Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss an
Pearl S. Buck
"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
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Small: My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was
Lenny Kravitz
"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true"
Lenny Kravitz, Musician
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Small: A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children
Holbrook Jackson
"A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children"
Holbrook Jackson, Writer
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Small: Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it
"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it"
Augustus Hare, Writer
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Small: My mother had morning sickness after I was born
Rodney Dangerfield
"My mother had morning sickness after I was born"
Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian
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Small: Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits
Christopher Marlowe
"Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
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Small: I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays
Beth Henley
"I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays"
Beth Henley, Playwright
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Small: I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot
Rodney Dangerfield
"I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot"
Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian
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Small: I think, at a childs birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, tha
Eleanor Roosevelt
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
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