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Then on the grounde
Togyder rounde
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You can't blame her,' said Amit. 'After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.'
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ELLEN KENNEDY
A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends. BETTY WHITE
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved... LORNA LUFT When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her wo... MILAN KUNDERA It was so bright, and you could feel the rumble.
LESLIE YOUNG Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or...
IMELDA MAY
Everyone else could get through to my mother: all they had to do was dial a number and wait for her ... SARAH DESSEN
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FRANK VEGAS I expected her to be pleased and excited. Sadly, she was no such thing. When it arrived my mother bu...
GREG DYKE They said the mother lived with the kids, that was her whole life.
LARRY COLAGIOVANNI
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My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... RUTH REICHL My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got old...
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I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's... JO BRAND My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
DELLA REESE My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in ...
GABY HOFFMANN
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandm... JACOB ROTHSCHILD
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all... MARLO THOMAS I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
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Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG We knew this was such a monumental thing in her life and she was able to stay so positive. We saw th...
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AL LEWIS My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor an...
LARRY FITZGERALD Perry was leaning into my mother as he listened to what she said. They talked so close. He only lean...
MARGARET MCMULLAN
Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my ... ROBERT ANTHONY
Once I was born, her hopes had turned and I had climbed up her life like a flower reaching for the s... DOROTHY ALLISON
When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, g... MAISIE WILLIAMS
Judy believed Libby was afraid of her testimony, BILL KELLER
His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It wa... ALICE SEBOLD
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things ... JOHN IRVING
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo... TYLER PERRY It was a volunteer position and that was her whole life, it would take someone who had that time to ...
CHERYL MAGNUSSEN
My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ... ALICE MUNRO The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 1...
CONAN STEVENS Mrs. Neel is in the unfortunate position of being the mother of the victim and the mother of the def...
JOHN PECK
I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her... ALICE WALKER
Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was ... RITA ORA They always say that the daughter will grow up to look like their mother. So, I asked my girlfriend ...
ANTHONY T.HINCKS
A fight with her mother? It was certainly within the realm of possibility, I guessed. Elizabeth was ... JAMES PATTERSON I was born on April 11, 1932. That makes 72. But I really don't deal with my self or my life by the ...
JOEL GREY
One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with... LORNA LUFT Why did you marry Dad, Mom?"
My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <...
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DIANE SCHMIDT He was a giver. He took all of the good things our mother and father taught. He was the best son a m...
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My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her ... GINGER ROGERS But my mom knew this was my job and she gave me her blessing and told me to stay out here and do the...
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My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously throu... BUCK OWENS It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't d...
JAMES MAXEY
I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. The... CONFUCIUS Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
ALISON BECHDEL
The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of th... LORNA LUFT
I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it w... JOHN SCALZI
If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend. ABHIJIT NASKAR It was like I'd climbed Everest, had the summit in my sight, the flag in my hand, all ready to pierc...
HOLLY BOURNE Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I ...
LIZ MURRAY
Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable roman... MICKEY ROONEY
Then on the grounde
Togyder rounde
With manye a sadde stroke,
They roll and rumble,
... SIR THOMAS MORE
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My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... ANGELINA JOLIE
Dorian could only stare at her. This was different from the feral creature she'd become the night Ne... SARAH J. MAAS
If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother in... DONNA BRAZILE
When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil's Thumb alone. It was incredibly d... JON KRAKAUER My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she... NEIL GAIMAN
Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when ... ARIANA GRANDE
I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundar... KARISMA KAPOOR I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my fac...
CATHY FREEMAN I begged her to get another job. I begged her to date other people and start a different life. But t...
MARCIA LEWIS
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my succe... GEORGE WASHINGTON Losing Sarah and my boy was the hardest thing I've ever lived through. But even then, you see, I kne...
JENNIFER ASHLEY My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN
People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's di... AMY TAN I was lucky I went to school in London because the tutors could see what to do. I knew I wanted to d...
HUSSEIN CHALAYAN
I remember when I knew she was going to have to testify in the grand jury and I felt terrible becaus... CHARLES RUFF
I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined ... GILLIAN FLYNN I don't know what I'm going to do without her ? she was my best and only friend.
DAWN HEIDTMAN She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly b...
EUDORA WELTY
Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a li... JAMES DOBSON
When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's hear... LORNA LUFT The person who was at that house that day was somebody that they did not know, meaning her personali...
TODD ANDERSON
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learn... RITA DOVE
God! You'll do anything to avoid it.'Avoid what?' my mother said.
The past,' Caroline sai...
SARAH DESSEN
My Mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my Mother. I attribute all my s... GEORGE WASHINGTON I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she...
MAE WHITMAN
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY
What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put... JAMES JOYCE We got there, her mother said she could run it, and then we missed the 300.
KRYSTAL MCKENZIE
You can't blame her,' said Amit. 'After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.'JOE TATE The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of t... POLLY TOYNBEE I suppose poets have written sonnets for a thousand years about being in love. A lot of people say, ...
ROBERT BLAKE
When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring,... MEG CABOT
My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag car... 
Beauty fades, dumb is forever. 
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. 
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Always be a first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else. 
Ask a heckler to identify himself and his company. They usually prefer to be anonymous. 
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. 
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Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was. 
I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions. 