Great Mother Quotes

• 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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• 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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• Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

  Stevie Wonder

  Mothers Day, Mom, Sweet

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

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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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• Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Family, Mothers Day, God

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

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  A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Birthday, Family

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Richer than I you can never be,
  I had a mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Reading, Mother And Son

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

  Mother Teresa

  Sad, Sympathy, Thinking

  Speech by the President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at the Birth Centenary Celebrations of Mother Teresa, pib.nic.in. August 30, 2010.

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• The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

  Mother Teresa

  Death, Mother, Peace

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.97, Image

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• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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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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  The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Abortion, Destroyers

  Speech at National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., February 03, 1994.

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• No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Measure of my Days (1968) p. 16

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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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  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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• There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

  Olive Schreiner

  Mom, Mother, Women

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883) See Proverbs 129

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• She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Family, Mom, Mother

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

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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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• My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

  Mark Twain

  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

  Mark Twain (1961). “Twain: Wit and Wisecracks”

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

  Rajneesh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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• The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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