Being A Mom Quotes - Page 6

• Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Mom, Mother, Time

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1887). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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• Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

  Crystal Eastman

  Motherhood, Equality, Roots

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

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• To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

  Marilyn French

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media

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• It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

  Ben Berger

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• ~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~

  Teri Hatcher

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.

  Claire Danes

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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

  Lisa Alther

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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

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• That best academy, a mother's knee.

  James Russell Lowell

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mom, Mother, Strong

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• The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.35, BookBaby

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• In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.59, Random House

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• Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.

  Adam Brody

  Mom, Mother, Names

  "Fictional character: Seth". "The O.C."/ "The Distance", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life.

  David O. McKay

  Mom, Sacrifice, Motherhood

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• My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Mom, Mother, Rip

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• Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

  Sophia Loren

  Mothers Day, Mom, Good Friend

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• When you're in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you're doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.

  Connie Schultz

  Mom, Mother, Running

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• The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.'

  David Finkelstein

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• Children are gleeful barbarians.

  Joe Morgenstern

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Mom, Mother

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

  James Agee

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mom, Children, Memories

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mom, Mother, Responsibility

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• I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.

  Shelley Long

  Mom, Mother, Love Is

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