My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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WILL DURANT She was the lawyer at the American Bar Association that was keeping the lawyers ethical. What better...
RONNE FROMAN My mother was the nicest person in the world. I still have people coming to me to say how she was so...
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JAMES ATLAS She was an extraordinary human being whose work and whose life were extremely intertwined. She was n...
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ANDRE BISHOP My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER She was extremely abusive, hurtful and dangerous.
MACK GARNER My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
DANNY AIELLO My mother was a very, very funny, outrageous, outspoken person, and she never edited me. Her whole t...
TIG NOTARO My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD Everybody came out OK except my mother. She was in the back seat and was thrown into the windshield.
FRANK VEGAS My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i...
NATALIE MERCHANT My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER extremely honorable, she was extremely honest.
CARY GOLDSTEIN Then I went back to my mother when I was 13 and she was ready for me.
MAYA ANGELOU But Brahms himself was extremely self-critical; he was always pruning and polishing his works.
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad...
TRACY MORGAN My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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JAYNE MEADOWS My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but ...
ATO ESSANDOH My sister was very bright. She was beautiful, she was a lovely person.
DONNA GAYLORD She stayed down real well on the hurdles and her form was really good. She was really focused becaus...
BILL MUNRO She actually caught it. It was extremely angry and she bound the snout.
MARY RAYNER Although my mother was her own person during their marriage, she loved and respected our father. The...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got old...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.
GEORGE FOREMAN My mother was a wonderful woman and led a good life. She went peacefully.
DENNIS RILEY When no one is watching Mother Earth, and most of the time no one is, she sings softly to herself. <...
SHARON WEIL My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
JAMES CAMERON My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother w...
ANDREA JUNG I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother li...
RENEE FLEMING I was extremely pleased at the teams' overall performance. It was very hot and these players stayed ...
JACK HUGHES I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it w...
NATALIA VODIANOVA The people that were in the building were the principal's relatives and she was playing a practical ...
ANNETTE SINGLETARY My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"
She married a house?
SHERRILYN KENYON My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ...
ANGELINA JOLIE My mother is brilliant; she's the best person in the world and keeps me grounded.
DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS My sister burns, and she does not burn for you.
E.K. JOHNSTON My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them.
My mother does not own m...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
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CASSADEE POPE My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam...
FRANCESCA ANNIS She works extremely hard in practice and she is always very focused. She will be one of our better d...
BETH RITTER My grandmother was a maid and baby sitter, ... From the time she was a teenager until she was 85 yea...
IVAN ALLEN My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with...
JILL LEPORE I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she ha...
PATRICIA HEATON My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.
BILLY CARTER My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swe...
SUSAN LUCCI My mother is the most important person I know, and I try to be the same as she.
TREVANTE RHODES Alex was extremely focused all year and set goals early in the season and did everything he could to...
JASON KUNKLE Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
PATRICIA SAMPSON Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
PATRICIA SAMPSON My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
DEAN STOCKWELL The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of th...
PHILIP TREACY I asked my mother, 'Who are those people?' She said she didn't know. She was happy because the husba...
ELIZABETH NSELE I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother...
LEE KUAN YEW My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ...
PATTI SMITH [She hurried into that film after finishing her role in Edward Burns '] The Groomsmen, ... was kind ...
EDWARD BURNS I was extremely upset about my daughter having testicles _ any mother or daddy would be. And my husb...
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FRANK MCCOURT Somewhere deep inside me was the will and determination not only to live, but to be a more present m...
ALANA STEWART My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and ...
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CHARLES DANCE I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,...
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LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD She was quiet and shy ... she was a very serious person,
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A farewell, and then forever!
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Stern Ruin's plou...
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KEN BURNS All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,
Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
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About the lords o' the creation.
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But a world without a friend.
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A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
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And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
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Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
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The hazard of concealing:
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...
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Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature...
ROBERT BURNS G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be,
Nor am I even the thing I could be,
But twenty times I...
ROBERT BURNS Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes!
My peace with these, my love with those.
The burstin...
ROBERT BURNS Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-
If there's a hole ...
ROBERT BURNS O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;
Long may thy h...
ROBERT BURNS But pleasures are like poppies spread;
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
Or like the sn...
ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS The mother may forget the child
That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;
But I'll remember thee, G...
ROBERT BURNS O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blund...
ROBERT BURNS My dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,
Long may thy hardy sons o...
ROBERT BURNS Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of wo.
ROBERT BURNS Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
ROBERT BURNS The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn,
And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
ROBERT BURNS Now blooms the lily by the bank,
The primrose down the brae;
The hawthorn's budding in the gle...
ROBERT BURNS Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea;
Ye stately foxgloves fair to see!
Ye woodbines, hanging...
ROBERT BURNS The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.
ROBERT BURNS A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest man's aboon his ...
ROBERT BURNS A man's a man for a' that!
ROBERT BURNS