Great Mother Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated Mithras' primeval act. The initiate was baptized in its blood, partaking of its life-giving properties. It may be noted that this part of the ceremonial closely resembled the ritual of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother of Asia Minor, which had been brought to Rome three centuries before Christ.

  Ninian Smart

  Mother, Baptized In, Rome

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• I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Mother, Thinking, Arrows

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

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• The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you, all of it - the murderer, the great mother, the therapist, the husband. Everything is inside of us.

  Jane Lynch

  Mother, Husband, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Mother, Light, Giving

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2007). “Lady of Avalon”, p.428, Penguin

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• Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.

  Christopher McDowell

  Life, Mother, Dream

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• Me, personally, I'm just happy. I have a great mother. I have two great sisters. I couldn't ask for more. I'm healthy. I do what I love.

  SonReal

  Mother, Two, Healthy

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother.

  Eva Mendes

  Mother, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Mother, People, Feel Good

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mother, Sleep

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.263, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.

  Charlize Theron

  Mother, Our Society, Complicated

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mother, Achievement, Suffering

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• Men, learn to speak blessings over your wife and you will see that woman rise to a new level. She will respond to your praise and encouragement. Your words don't have to be poetic, fancy, or profound. Tell her simply but sincerely, "You're a great mother to our children. And you are a great wife to me. I'm so glad I can always count on you."

  Joel Osteen

  Mother, Encouragement, Children

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• I did not know there was any controversy. I don't get a lot of time to read the fan forums, etc. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to have more storylines. I was just so happy to step in and pick up some of the slack for Emily while she was pregnant. It was so important for Emily to concentrate on her health and the well-being of her baby. In the end ... she is a great mother and her baby is adorable. I did not realize there was any controversy. LOL!

  Eva LaRue

  Mother, Baby, Opportunity

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• The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Blood, Feminist

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

  Henry Williamson

  Mother, Ocean, Nurse

  Henry Williamson (2011). “The Gale of the World”, p.252, Faber & Faber

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• A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope doesn't kill you, nor did it make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something else to solve your problems - you ceased hoping your problems somehow get solved, through the magical assistance of God, the Great Mother, the Sierra Club, valiant tree-sitters, brave salmon, or even the Earth itself - and you just began doing what's necessary to solve your problems yourself.

  Derrick Jensen

  Mother, Hope, Giving Up

  "Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization". Book by Derrick Jensen, 2011.

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• They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mother, Fate, Genius

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum I know I am a great mother.

  Kate Winslet

  Mother, Baby, Morning

  "Perfecting the illusion" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

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