Mother
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because 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.
My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself — whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. — because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.
It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.
Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by that I mean my son and to have that relationship with my son to give me that quiet confidence that I needed as a mother and as a woman. Now with Brooklyn, I am just so at ease; I am so comfortable.
My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.
In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.
I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother's black. I'm black because I grew up in a family of all black people. I knew I was black because I grew up in an all-white neighborhood. And my parents, as part of their protective mechanisms that they were going to give to us, made it very clear what we were.
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
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