My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields.
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My mother told me that I was too hard on her, that I expected too much from her.
So, when my mother told me there was an obviously sick bird in the house, I took her seriously.
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My mother told me that as a young bride, she wakened frequently to find my father pacing the kitchen floor.
"My mother told me not to talk too long today and Barbara, I will not let you down, " Clinton quipped Thursday, prompting laughs from Hillary Clinton.
Long before I studied finance formally, my mother told me a story when I was young that became imprinted on my mind, and I still enjoy retelling it today.
Probably my mother told me this in a moment of adult boredom or whimsy, and then my father came home from work and joined in, also in a whimsical way.
"From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself, " says Lee-Chin.
From the time I was a child, my mother told me about growing up in the newly-independent Czechoslovakia led by President Masaryk, about the horror of the Nazi occupation, and about the hopes for a new beginning after the war, only to have the Communists take over.
My mother once told me that I was conceived on a train going to New York City.
My mother always told me the older you get, the faster time goes.
At some point, my girlfriend's mother told me about fugu puffer fish, which is considered a delicacy in Japan how there is a short season for it, and if it isn't prepared exactly right, a bite can kill you.
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Big Mama told me that my mother, whose name was Selma, had a boyfriend over at the Williams Plantation, but she would never tell anybody who he was because she didn't want him getting into trouble for sneaking out to see her in the big house at night.
"He's basically taken my mother away from me, " Hilton told CNN in an interview a year ago.
"That was the only time my mother saw me on stage, " she told friend and journalist Gamal Nkrumah in 2001.
My mother never forced me to do this job but she told me that there was no other work and if we didn't do it the family would starve.
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