It's important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition.
Kamala HarrisRead
My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
Interpretation
This quote expresses deep admiration for a mother as a source of strength and inspiration.
Kamala Harris emphasizes the profound impact her mother had on her life, portraying her as a pillar of strength and guidance. The quote highlights the importance of maternal figures in shaping one's values and aspirations, suggesting that the influence of a mother can endure through time and remain a source of motivation and courage.
In practice
This quote can be used in a Mother's Day speech to honor mothers.
It's important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition.
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.
My mother... would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, 'I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?' You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.
I believe a child going without an education is tantamount to a crime. So I decided I was going to start prosecuting parents for truancy.
My mother has the same kind of an arm, even today at 74. She could throw a ball from second base to home plate with something on it. I got my arm from my mother.
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.
We as parents are our children's first and best role models, and this is particularly true when it comes to their health. ...We can't lie around on the couch eating French fries and candy bars and expect our kids to eat carrots and run around the block.
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.
I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.
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