Best Mother Quotes - Page 2

• Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Mother, Games

  "Life Is". Poem by Mother Teresa, www.beliefnet.com.

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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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• Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Song, Struggle

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• I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Family, Mom

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  If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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• My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

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

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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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• An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Family, Mothers Day

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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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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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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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

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  Gift from the Sea ch. 3 (1955)

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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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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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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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• Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
  Calls back the lovely April of her prime...

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Art, Glasses

  Sonnet 3

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• A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

  Bob Hope

  Mothers Day, Mean, Motherhood

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• If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

  Booker T. Washington

  Mothers Day, Mom, Attention

  Booker T. Washington (2009). “Up from Slavery: An Autobiography”, p.46, The Floating Press

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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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• I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

  Judith Viorst

  Mom, Mother, Bad Day

  "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day". Book by Judith Viorst, June 16, 1972.

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• My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.

  Stephen King

  Mom, Mother, Brother

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• I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mom, Mother, Biased

  "Chelsea Clinton Leans In" by Lynn Sherr, parade.com. April 06, 2013.

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