Inspirational Mothers Quotes - Page 3

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

"Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, September 1990.

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Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Marilyn French

I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

Marilyn French (2013). “A Season in Hell: A Memoir”, p.245, Open Road Media

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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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Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Charlotte Gray

Family, Mother, Children

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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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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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

Lin Yutang

Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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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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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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MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

Eddy Arnold

Mothers Day, Mean, World

Song: MOTHER

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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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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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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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That best academy, a mother's knee.

James Russell Lowell

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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