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And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see it? — Ali Smith

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church. — Whitney Houston

All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave. — S.L. Viehl

The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm. — Jimmy McGill

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Whatever the era ... one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first. — Barbara Bush

All cat stories start with this statement: My mother, who was the first cat, told me this ... — Shirley Jackson

In a word, the woman first exists as a mother, and the man first exists as a son.10 — Erich Neumann

I believe I was actually the first single mother in a major film. — Dee Wallace

I act, but I am a mother first and wife second. — Annette Bening

I BELIEVE IN LOVE <3 AT FIRST SIGHT BECAUSE I M LOVING MY MOM SINCE I OPENED MY EYES — Aditya Mahajan

Like any working mother, I have to balance and manage my time very carefully. My children and husband come first, of course, then my work. — Andrea Davis Pinkney

Mother is the best and the first teacher to the child . — Revathi Sankaran

He was caught somewhere between his mother's last kiss and the first kiss he would give his child, between the war that was and would be — Jonathan Safran Foer

I was excited about getting my first tattoo, but I was only twelve, so I had to hide it from my mother. — Mark Wahlberg

My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived. — Nayyirah Waheed

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning. — Chesley Sullenberger

My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart. — Cung Le

Mrs. d'Urberville was not the first mother compelled to love her offspring resentfully, and to be bitterly fond. — Thomas Hardy

My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born. — Jeremy Lloyd

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me. — Carol Thatcher

To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home,
To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome. — Christina Rossetti

If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any God-damned wars in the first place! — Sally Field

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise. — Rick Riordan

I've sort of made up my mind that I have to do my career and I have to be a mother. These are my two responsibilities; of course the baby comes first. — Phoebe Snow

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played. — Mick Taylor

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes. — Eva Gabor

When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair. — Tommy Bolin

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. — Christian Morgenstern

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off. — Judith Viorst

That was a judicious mother who said, I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me. — Henry Ward Beecher

The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter. — Esmeralda Santiago

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters. — George Herbert

A child's first teacher is its mother. — Peng Liyuan

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers — Mathew Brady

My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother. — Geoffrey Wilkinson

To profoundly understand a baby, you must first be a mother. — Debasish Mridha

I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV. — Paul O'Grady

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others. — Alice Miller

I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf. — Liz Goldwyn

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world. — Malcolm X

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop. — Mona Simpson

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine? — Alice B. Toklas

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. — Rita Wilson

The first day i shot dope
was on a sunday.
i had just come
home from church
got mad at my mother
cuz she got mad at me. u dig? — Sonia Sanchez

Don't even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years. — Brandon Shire

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978. — Roberto Benigni

Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten. — Giovanni Ruffini

First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness. — Geri Halliwell

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother. — Joel McCrea

Mother is her son's first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all - how to love. — T.F. Hodge

POE DAMERON'S first ship was his mother's RZ-1 A-wing. — Greg Rucka

I asked my mother when we first met, but she evaded the answer like she does everything else. — Candace Knoebel

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers ... — Rosalynn Carter

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. — Arthur Rock

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s. — Andy Goldsworthy

Annie died the other day
never was there such a lay
whom,among her dollies,dad
first("don't tell your mother")had — E. E. Cummings

You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War. — Jeremy Hardy

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad. — Gene Tierney

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. — Kiefer Sutherland

I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid. — Imelda Staunton

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people. — Mother Teresa

My first words, as I was being born [ ... ] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those. — Stephen Fry

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' — Adrienne Rich

The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother. — Vikrmn

The first drum beat we all heard was our mother. — John Densmore

I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.Ijustthoughtthatthere was oneway tospeak to my father and another to talk to my mother. — Louis St. Laurent

When a man marries, he should take a good look at his mother-in-law first, to understand where life will take him. — Ashok Ferrey

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor. — Missy Elliott

Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. — Robert Breault

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta. — Mother Teresa

She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean? — Stacy Hawkins Adams

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years. — Ingrid Bergman

Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know? — Brit Bennett

We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later. — Chang-rae Lee

When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names - hers and her mother's. — Rodney Dangerfield

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in. — Peter Fonda

Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; 3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. — Anonymous

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. — Elizabeth Taylor

God always visit two times in our life first on our birth he is the one who take out from mother's womb second to take back home. — Kishore Bansal

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. — George Eliot

I was nine months old the first time Mamaw saw my mother put Pepsi in my bottle. — J.D. Vance

My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves. — Mary Gaitskill

On famous relatives - First I was my mother's daughter..and now..I am my daughter's mother ! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council. — Julian Castro

Your mother's heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last. — Dave Brubeck

I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot. — Ann Hood

When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it. — Kathryn Harrison

This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no! — Shannon Hale

I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest. — Phyllis Diller

My mother was my first jealous lover ... — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us. — Matt Damon

Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother. — Stephen King

you're my first born child, and the person who first showed me the miracle of this love a mother has for her child. — Elizabeth Noble

My mother once said that when soul mates find each other, from their very first kiss they feel like they've been together forever." Her — Melissa Foster

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence. — Mother Teresa

But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds. — Adrienne Rich

I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time. — Nate Berkus

My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!' — Sanjeev Bhaskar