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Norman Bates2 quotes
A son is a poor substitute for a lover. — Norman Bates · 1960A boy's best friend is his mother. — Norman Bates · 1960Dinah Craik1 quote
O, my son's my son till he gets him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life. — Dinah Craik · 1881Jill Bennett1 quote
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. — Jill Bennett · 1982Martha Gellhorn1 quote
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. — Martha Gellhorn · 1969Marty McFly1 quote
Wow. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me? — Marty McFly · 1985Olive Schreiner1 quote
There was never a great man who had not a great mother. — Olive Schreiner · 1883Pappy O'Daniel1 quote
Thank God your mommy died givin' birth. If she'd have seen you, she'd have died of shame. — Pappy O'Daniel · 2000Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote
Men are what their mothers made them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1860Sigmund Freud1 quote
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it. — Sigmund Freud · 1917Sophocles1 quote
Sons are the anchors of a mother's life. — Sophocles · 400 BCTupac1 quote
And even as a crack fiend, Mama
You always was a black queen, Mama. — Tupac · 1995William Dillon1 quote
I want a girl just like the girl
That married dear old dad. — William Dillon · 1911