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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Mother'

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Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.
William Petersen, American Actor (1953-  )
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Petrarch, Italian Poet (1304-1374)
Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.
William Petty, English Economist (1623-1687)
My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.
Emo Philips, American Comedian (1956-  )
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
Jean Piaget, Swiss Psychologist (1896-1980)
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist (1881-1973)
If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?
Charles Pierce, American Entertainer (1926-1999)
It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.
Charles Pierce, American Entertainer (1926-1999)
I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them.
Nelson Piquet, Brazilian Celebrity (1952-  )
A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.
Frank Pittman, -
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?
Frank Pittman, -
Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato, Greek Philosopher
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
Andrei Platonov, Russian Writer (1899-1951)
One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.
Eleanor Porter, American Novelist (1868-1920)
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
Paula Poundstone, American Comedian (1959-  )
I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.
Elvis Presley, American Musician (1935-1977)
You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.
Priscilla Presley, American Actress (1945-  )
Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.
Romano Prodi, Italian Statesman (1939-  )
My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.
Sergei Prokofiev, Russian Composer (1891-1953)
My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!
Paul Prudhomme, American Celebrity (1940-  )
 
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