Inspirational Mothers Quotes - Page 3

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

"Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, September 1990.

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Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Marilyn French

I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

Marilyn French (2013). “A Season in Hell: A Memoir”, p.245, Open Road Media

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Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

P. J. O'Rourke

Family, Mom, Mother

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Charlotte Gray

Family, Mother, Children

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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Son

"Mama Was My Teacher: Growing Up In A Small Southern Town" by Dozier Cade, (p. 77), 2004.

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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Mothers Day, Mom, Hope

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.129, Reprint Services Corporation

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Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

Lin Yutang

Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

George Washington

Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

Rajneesh

Mom, Mother, Baby

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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Peter De Vries

Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

Washington Irving

Best Friend, Family, Mothers Day

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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, but only one mother in the whole world.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

Jill Churchill

Inspirational, Leadership, Mothers Day

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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

Maya Angelou

Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.49, Modern Library

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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Zora Neale Hurston

Mothers Day, Mom, Children

Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY

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Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Frank Bruno

I Love You, Romantic, Break Up

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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

James Fenton

Mom, Mother, Humorous

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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

Golda Meir

Mother, Children, Struggle

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Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

Jill Bennett

Marriage, Mom, Mother

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MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

Eddy Arnold

Mothers Day, Mean, World

Song: MOTHER

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Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Ted Shackelford

I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

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Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.

Betty Rollin

Mom, Mother, Block

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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Jackie Kennedy

Mother, Children, Single Mom

Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur at Hyannis Port, Mass., October 1, 1960.

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She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

Margaret Culkin Banning

Family, Mom, Mother

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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