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• Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

  Olivia Williams

  Mother, Memories, Father

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• Nothing is nicer than diving with your eyes open. Diving down as far as the shimmering legs of your mother and father who have just come back from swimming and now are wading to shore through the shallow water. Nothing more fun than to tickle them and to hear, muffled by the water, how they shriek because they know it will make their child happy.

  Jenny Erpenbeck

  Mother, Children, Fun

  Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.62, Granta Books

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• I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohammed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This the legacy of change I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
  This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Mother, Jesus, Kings

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". Speech at the United Nations, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mother, Father, Wedding Anniversary

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• I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.

  Audre Lorde

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name". Book by Audre Lorde, 1982.

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• I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Country, Father

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

  Shirley Knight

  Family, Mother, Children

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• The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Mother, Father, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

  Dominic Chianese

  Mother, Father, Grandparent

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• In an ideal society, mothers and fathers would produce potty- trained, civilized, responsible new citizens while government and corporate leaders would provide a safe, healthy, economically just community.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Father, Government

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Every human being is a universe within themselves. Your mother and father participated with God to create a soul who would never cease to exist. Your parents, as co-creators, supplied the stuff, genetics and more, uniquely combined to form a masterpiece, not flawless but still astounding; and we took from their hands what they brought to us, submitting to their timing and history and added what only we could bring to them -- life. You were conceived, a living wonder who exploded into being.

  William P. Young

  Mother, Father, Hands

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• Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the overwhelming similarities in parents' behaviors. I think this is a hangover from the 1950s re-emergence of father as a parent. He has to be special. The best summary of the evidence on mothers and fathers with their babies is that young children of both sexes, in most circumstances, like both parents equally well. Fathers, like mothers, are good parents first and gender representatives second.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Baby, Sex

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• The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and we're them at another point in the cycle. The deer are twice your parents, for your mother and father are deer, and the deer that gave you its life today was mother and father to you as well, since you wouldn't be here if it weren't for that deer.

  Daniel Quinn

  Mother, Father, Cycle Of Life

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• My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources. That you be willing to pay Black people reparations for our years and years of service in this country. That you be willing to go home and tell your white mother and father about white racism and how it affects and kills Black people in our communities. That's my definition of good white people, and I haven't met any like that.

  Sister Souljah

  Mother, Country, Giving Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Mother, Father, Decision

  "Russian ex-president Yeltsin dies". news.bbc.co.uk. April 23, 2007.

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• All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

  Ken Venturi

  Mother, Father, Kids

  Interview with James Cramer at Kemper Insurance Open in Potomac, Maryland, www.asapsports.com. June 3, 2000.

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• We are the higher synthesis of the union of the archetypal Mother and Father. As we recognize the divinity within ourselves, we see it in each other and all around us. Through this realization, the world becomes sacred again, infused with intelligence, spirit, and a grand plan for evolutionary awakening.

  Anodea Judith

  Inspirational, Mother, Father

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• I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mother, Father

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• My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician. They worked at the same jobs for their entire life, 50 years each.

  David Plotz

  Mother, Jobs, Father

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

  David Dinkins

  Mother, Father, Six

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• I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.

  Will Rogers

  Mother, Running, Father

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• Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Mother, Jobs

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.1.

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• I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

  Beverly Cleary

  Inspiring, Mother, Children

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