Love For My Mother Quotes - Page 2

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

Alice Hoffman

Daughter, Children, Secret

FaceBook post by Alice Hoffman from May 10, 2015

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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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A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Funny, Family, Mothers Day

Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

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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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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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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 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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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

Agatha Christie

Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

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Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

Robert A. Heinlein

Inspirational, Mom, Mother

Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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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.

Washington Irving

Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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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 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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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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My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Jodi Picoult

Love, Mothers Day, Beautiful

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

Rajneesh

Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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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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Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

Gail Tsukiyama

Mothers Day, Mom, Strong

Gail Tsukiyama (2003). “Dreaming Water: A Novel”, p.164, Macmillan

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No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Beauty, Mom, Mother

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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Erich Fromm

Mom, Mother, Children

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When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

Gracie Allen

Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

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Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

Jodi Picoult

Mom, Mother, Kids

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mother, Running, Jobs

Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Pigs in Heaven: Novel, A”, p.25, Harper Collins

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In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

N.K. Jemisin

Mom, Mother, Children

N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.63, Hachette UK

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As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

Kristin Hannah

Family, Mothers Day, Mom

Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.609, Ballantine Books

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