A Quote by Ethel Waters

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

Ethel Waters

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Ethel Waters
American - Musician
October 31, 1896 - September 1, 1977

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

Ethel Waters

My mother has been to Mecca to perform her hajj; my dad hasn't. I come from a very liberal family, so even the people who are outwardly religious tend to subscribe to gender equality, the importance of open-mindedness, all that stuff. My family is generally nonprescriptive.

Mohsin Hamid

In humans, the family prevents infanticide. Next to language, the core family, consisting of a mother, a father and children, is the greatest difference between us and other primates.

Frans de Waal

As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.

Andie MacDowell

I am a family person and relationships hold a lot of importance in my life.

Lara Dutta

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

Kenneth Koch

Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all.. darkest surrender

Gena Showalter

My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.

Siri Hustvedt

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

Stevie Wonder

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Sonia Sotomayor

There are many wrestlers in my mother's family. So I guess I've inherited my love for wrestling from my mother's side of the family.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

David Bowie

My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

Samuel Alito

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

David Platt

I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family.

Alexis Stewart

I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all traditional Catholics. But my mother was the black sheep of the family - she ran away to the ballet at 17.

Pawel Pawlikowski

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