Inspirational Mothers Quotes

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.

Charlotte Gray

Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Frank Bruno

I Love You, Romantic, Break Up

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That best academy, a mother's knee.

James Russell Lowell

Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Zora Neale Hurston

Mothers Day, Mom, Children

Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY

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MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

Eddy Arnold

Mothers Day, Mean, World

Song: MOTHER

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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Jackie Kennedy

Mother, Children, Single Mom

Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur at Hyannis Port, Mass., October 1, 1960.

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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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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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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

Germaine Greer

Mom, Mother, Opportunity

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No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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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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Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Ted Shackelford

I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

James Fenton

Mom, Mother, Humorous

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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

Golda Meir

Mother, Children, Struggle

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Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

Jill Bennett

Marriage, Mom, Mother

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

Lin Yutang

Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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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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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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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Peter De Vries

Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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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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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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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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