Being A Mother Quotes

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Conduct of Life "Fate" (1860)

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• A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

  Agatha Christie

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

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• Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Mom, Mother

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from May 08, 2014

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• Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

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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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• Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, War, Being A Mom

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Mom, Funny Inspirational, Children

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• Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

  Aristotle

  Family, 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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• Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Family, Marriage

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

  Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

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• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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

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• There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

  Roseanne Barr

  Inspiring, Mother, People

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• He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mom, Mother, Powerful

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• If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, Prayer, Motherhood

  The Light That Failed (1891) dedication

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• The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

  Mike Wallace

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

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• The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Children, Heart, Parenting

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• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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• Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

  Nancy Thayer

  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

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• My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

  Michael Jordan

  Mothers Day, Mom, Roots

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• As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

  Kristin Hannah

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.609, Ballantine Books

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• It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mothers Day, Mom, Fathers Day

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• Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

  Rebecca West

  Mom, Mother, Humanity

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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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