Mothers Day Quotes - Page 4

• If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Prayer, Sea, Soul

  'The Light That Failed' (1891) dedication

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• When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

  Gracie Allen

  Inspiring, Mom, Food

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• There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

  Billy Sunday

  Inspiring, Mom, Song

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

  Lisa Alther

  Funny, Mom, Jobs

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

  Adam Sandler

  Inspiring, Kids, Mad

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• I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Children, Disappointment

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• This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
  With love's true instinct, back to thee!

  Thomas Moore

  Mom, Heart, Single Mother

  Thomas Moore (1872). “The poetical works of Thomas Moore, with notes”, p.570

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mom, Mother Daughter

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

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mom, Daughter, Fathers Day

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

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• My mom is definitely my rock.

  Alicia Keys

  Inspiring, Mom, Motherhood

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• Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Inspiring, Father, Stupid

  "Should Rosie Be Fired From 'The View'?". The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. March 30, 2007.

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• A mother who is really a mother is never free.

  Honore de Balzac

  Parenting, Parenthood, Mother Care

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

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• The only woman a wife should ever be jealous of is her husband's mom.

  Jason Thomas

  Mom, Husband, Jealous

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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, Mom

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• If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mom, Motherhood, Mother Love

  The Light That Failed (1891) dedication

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• The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Family, Father, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Allsop (1836). “Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes”, p.23

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• Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

  James Joyce

  Family, Mom, Motherhood

  James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.282, Courier Corporation

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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, Beautiful

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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.

  Washington Irving

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Fall

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• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mom, Motherhood, Mother And Son

  Gift from the Sea ch. 3 (1955)

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mom, Mother And Son, Mother Son

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

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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

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Fall

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

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• My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Beautiful, Mom

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

  Peter De Vries

  Funny, Mom, Appreciation

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