Best Mother Quotes

• A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

  Gaspard Mermillod

  Relationship, Mothers Day, Mom

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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] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.475, Harvard University Press

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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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• 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, Mothers Day, Beautiful

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

  Lin Yutang

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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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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• A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

  Princess Diana

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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  Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Happiness, Smile

  Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

  Donna Ball

  Mother, Choices, Forgiving

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• Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Mom, Mother

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• Most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

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

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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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• The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

  Mother Teresa

  Success, God, Mother

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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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• But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Running, Jobs

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Pigs in Heaven: Novel, A”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

  Jessica Lange

  Motivational, Family, Mom

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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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• It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

  Roald Dahl

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.148, Penguin

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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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