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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child. — Gail Simmons

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion. — Amy Chua

People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children. — Rachel Caine

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian. — George Allen

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it. — Jules Michelet

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same. — Leymah Gbowee

My mother pictured a daughter as a counterinsurgent: a fellow lover of lapdogs, a seconder of proposals to attend the Ice Capades. In — Jeffrey Eugenides

After the death of a parent, children will typically start to worry about your safety as their mother, so they will need extra reassurance from you. — James Windell

From Charades: when she was younger she was a frustrated mother, so she is pleased when her children act as is they don't remember — Lorrie Moore

(...)no one can take the place of a perfect mother who gives you the world as you know it and makes you believe that it is yours to take. — Tristan Wood

I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female. — Amy Tan

It was my duty as a mother to invade your privacy and search your room. I'm just glad you weren't hiding an illegal drug. — S.A. Tawks

The great problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her. — Gloria Furman

watched as the earth mother turned into a corporate dominatrix, chewing out the legal counsel — Susan Wiggs

She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend. — Ida Hattemer-Higgins

Helianthus snorted. "Olorun is like his mother: he will only change as the face of a rock changes. But . . . I think he missed you. — Ash Gray

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you. — Sathya Sai Baba

As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb ... I realized that I had made a mistake, — Quentin Crisp

The way is a great mother, empty yet inexhaustible. She gives birth to worlds unending. Ever present within you, manifest her as you will. — Stifyn Emrys

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France. — Segolene Royal

I voted for every woman who has to leave a baby too soon, who has to downgrade her career, or who is made to feel invisible in her role as a mother. — Erin Passons

October had roared in as if Mother Nature was pissed off at the world, and maybe in need of a Xanax to boot. — Jill Shalvis

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job. — Greg Peterson

When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. — Amy Tan

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one. — Thiruvalluvar

It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry. — Bonnie Langford

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy. — Darcey Steinke

We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius. And here's my mother, figuring "alert" ought to suffice as a compliment. — Randy Pausch

and the wind gathered the leaves as a mother gathers her children and blew them irrevocably, lovingly, into the haunted wildness — Elliot Mabeuse

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive. — Lynn Nottage

My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary. — Marie Rutkoski

As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies. — Truman Capote

I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father — Robert Rankin

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else. — Suzanne Vega

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me. — Anu Garg

Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death. — Larry Watson

Something about an inner value, about love; the love that shone from him as if from some kind of a beacon. — Bryan Islip

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children. — J.K. Rowling

Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore. — Lorrie Moore

I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother. — Solange Knowles

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him. — Mary Balogh

A woman without a man
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife. — Barbara Kingsolver

I go to him as a baby goes to his mother so that he can fill me and invade all and take me in his arms. — Elizabeth Of The Trinity

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity on both counts. — Shirley Chisholm

I'm a person who likes to give 100 percent to everything I do. I want to be the best at my job and as a mother. — Gretchen Carlson

We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother's milk. — R.C. Sproul

there as a kid, wide-eyed, listening as my mother would talk about how at age nine she — Peter M. Rhee

As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush. — Natalie Dormer

Only a mother's heart can be
Patient enough for such as he. — Ethel Lynn Beers

I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do. — Tawni O'Dell

A mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child. — Nicole Helget

The heart of a good mother is as big as the ocean; accommodating all kind of things and sweeping all unwanted things to its shores! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It's time you met Mother," said Marius. It was about as far from a declaration of undying passion as a man could get. — Emma Clifton

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing. — Alice Childress

The child's arms around her, hugging her as a daughter hugs her mother. Joyfully. Spontaneously. The most beautiful of all. The most beautiful of all. — Eowyn Ivey

As much as she might argue otherwise, his mother was a fragile woman. — Reif Larsen

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother. — Naomi Watts

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted. — Cindy Crawford

Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism. — Abhijit Naskar

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother. — Phyllis Schlafly

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother. — Cate Blanchett

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through. — James Cagney

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother. — Duane Chapman

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality. — Joe Biden

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime. — Lydia Sigourney

My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off. — Leo Buscaglia

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit. — Margaret Sanger

To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way. — Alexander McCall Smith

Golconda remained a city where the wind was like velvet, where the sun was made of radium, and the sea as warm as a mother's womb. — Anais Nin

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids. — Dorothy Malone

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. — Gunter Grass

They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother. — Martin McGuinness

The king is my son!" Cersei rose to her feet. "Aye," her uncle said, "and from what I saw of Joffrey, you are as unfit a mother as you are a ruler. — George R R Martin

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster. — Jerry B. Jenkins

A father's suspicion...' she began.
Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.'

~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon — Alice Sebold

My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922. — Judy Gold

Among the other things I've learned as a mother, is that women continue to explain way too much. — Avital Norman Nathman

My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother. — Siobhan Fallon Hogan

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter. — Vera Farmiga

As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future. — Vanessa Redgrave

Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul. — Victor Hugo

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth. — Thelma Golden

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry. — Allegra Huston

Guard your heart, so it doesn't get broken like mine, my mother used to say as often as twice a week. — Tarryn Fisher

She was like a mother to me ... and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her. — Philippa Gregory

If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference. — Susan Sarandon

Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life. — J.K. Rowling

A girl? Her mother looked at her, curiously, as if the word were unknown to her; ancient and puzzling as an artifact behind a glass encasement. — Abby Slovin

A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious. — Simon Soloveychik

As my mother told me, if you save one life, it begins a dynasty. The life you save can save another, so one life is never too small. — Diane Von Furstenberg

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation. — Henry Ward Beecher

In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent. — Polixeni Papapetrou

You have dimples in your cheeks and a cleft in your chin."
"My mother dropped me on my face as a child. I'm severely dented. What can I say? — Amy Harmon

Trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one. — Lionel Shriver

Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words. — Swami Vivekananda