Quotes on mothers
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
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Unknown Author Quotes
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
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Marion C. Garretty Quotes
That best academy, a mother's knee.
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James Russell Lowell Quotes
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
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Washington Irving Quotes
There's nothing like a mama-hug.
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Adabella Radici Quotes
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
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Washington Irving Quotes
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Spanish Proverb Quotes
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
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James Joyce Quotes
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
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John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Sophia Loren Quotes
The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
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Mildred B. Vermont Quotes
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
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Peter De Vries Quotes
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
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Meryl Streep Quotes
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
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Rajneesh Quotes
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
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Mark Twain Quotes
He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.
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Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
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Isadora Duncan Quotes
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
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Erich Fromm Quotes
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
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Margaret Culkin Banning Quotes
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
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Milton Berle Quotes
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
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Toni Morrison Quotes
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
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Tenneva Jordan Quotes
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.
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Lisa Alther Quotes
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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Aristotle Quotes
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands, bare hands, and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands, a kind of mad courage.
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Robert Fulghum Quotes
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
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Golda Meir Quotes
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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William Makepeace Thackery Quotes
A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
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Author Unknown Quotes
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is."
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Keith L. Brooks Quotes
The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.
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Renita Weems Quotes
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Oprah Winfrey Quotes