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All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food. — Suzanne Collins

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

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do. — Mother Maribel

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up. — Madeleine Albright

Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife? — Betty Smith

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea. — Paul Watzlawick

I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty. — Marge Piercy

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. — Alice Walker

We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full. — Mother Teresa

To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says. — Slavenka Drakulic

I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like. — Amy Poehler

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. -Mother Teresa- — A Meredith Walters

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. — Liane Moriarty

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source. — B.B. King

But what kind of profession is this, writer?" my mother would ask. "You want to be this?" I want to be this. — Gary Shteyngart

If you give what you do not need, it is not giving. — Mother Teresa

My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am. — Andy Rooney

She knows your mother isn't here to protect you any more. But you know what the solution is: stay out of her way. Stay here. Stay with me. — Diana Peterfreund

For Mother Nature, opinions and predictions don't count; surviving is what matters. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What least makes a mother is biology. — Oprah Winfrey

...and this is what grandmothers and mother-in-law and mothers do. They fight for the good. — Fredrik Backman

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. — Voltaire

I'm nothing, I'm everything,' he declared. 'The street is my mother. The sun is my father. What more should I ask of life? — Alain Mabanckou

I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God. — Mother Teresa

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time. — Barbara Bush

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own. — Margaret Deland

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end. — Mother Angelica

What we need is love without getting tired. — Mother Teresa

I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how long it was and how it was 36 hours of hell . — Kristen Stewart

Perhaps that is what growing up means: slowly realizing how right your mother has been. — Sheila Kohler

What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they're small and to be held by them once they've grown tall. It's empty arms a mother dreads. — Richelle E. Goodrich

My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.' — Grace Jones

No matter what you do each day ... or in life ... doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. — Elizabeth George

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about. — Milla Jovovich

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. — Nora Ephron

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is. — Elizabeth Edwards

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do. — Shonda Rhimes

It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa — Mother Teresa

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

What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear? — Therese Of Lisieux

And really is there anything in the world more captivating than a beautiful young mother with a healthy baby in her arms? 'What — Anton Chekhov

The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us. — Chief Joseph

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. — Nancy Friday

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

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do. — Halle Berry

What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother. — Liya Kebede

It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother. — Grace Kelly

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her. — Meghan O'Rourke

One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give. — Mother Teresa

What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love? - — Michael J. Sullivan

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed. — Mother Teresa

Necessity is the mother of all appetites. What you need in order to survive, you learn to love, — Jeaniene Frost

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl. — Roma Downey

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there? — Spencer W. Kimball

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady. — J.P. Donleavy

What you have to remember about your mother is that she didn't have her own character. She turned into whoever she was sitting next to. When — Ann Patchett

When he was 19, Mick Jagger said, "what a drag it is getting old... (Mother's little Helper) — The Stones

What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it. — Orlando Bloom

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't. — J.M. Barrie

Who is this woman, and what has she done with my ever worrying mother? — Shannon Messenger

I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother. — Karisma Kapoor

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother. — Janet Malcolm

The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks. — Sofia Vergara

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way. — Adriana Trigiani

This is what you get in the suburbs, his mother said, the satisfaction of small desires. The — Nathan Hill

I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing. — Flannery O'Connor

My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on. — Jonathan Brandis

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting ... old? If I'm ... old, then what is she? — Gail Parent

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like. — Kathleen Sebelius

That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute. — Mother Jones

What is it about the sight of your mother that makes everything fireside-warm and full of dancing Muppets? — Kendare Blake

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

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. — Evan Esar

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

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness. — Maj Sjowall

The question isn't what will a mother do to save her child. The question is, what won't a mother do to save her child! — Sunanda J. Chatterjee

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late! — Jeanette Winterson

What is there beyond the sky?' I asked my mother.
'Paradise.'
'What does it look like?'
'Like children's dreams. — Refaat Alareer

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother. — Meghan O'Rourke

Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old. — Brock Chisholm

what is the love of child, or mother, or dog, but the love of God, shining through another being - which is a being just because he shines through it. — George MacDonald

He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is. — Jerry Jeff Walker

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love. — Halle Berry

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?' — Stephen Daldry

What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights. — Robert Breault

Mother nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates. — Ernest Becker

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them. — Hillary DePiano

I'm just living my life and I'm being the best mother that I can and showing that on 'Teen Mom' because that's what that show is about. — Farrah Abraham

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up. — Tony Parsons

What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee. — Alice Munro

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

That is what you're making of the end of your mother's life, child. What will you make of your own? — Kage Baker

So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet? — Byron Katie

When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her family. — Bernie Sanders

We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds. — Mother Teresa

What is a nation without a mother tongue? — Jack Edwards

I know that is what I was put on Earth to do - to be a mother. — Cheryl Cole

You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it. — Elissa Schappell