Mom Quotes - Page 40

• Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Mother, Parenting

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• You may have tangible wealth untold:
  Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
  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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• I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I'm more womanly. I feel sexier.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Inspiring, Mother, Crazy

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Babies are such a nice way to start people.

  Don Herold

  Relationship, Baby, Nice

  "Bewitched: Santa Comes to Visit and Stays and Stays". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1969.

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• My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

  Barry Humphries

  Funny, Friendship, Mother

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• It's really one of my all-time favorite things to do. To go out and really see the kids and visit the moms who are in these programs because I think I really get to see what happens on the ground and connect with them about what changes are that happen in their lives because of some of the giving that we're able to do.

  Melinda Gates

  Change, Kids, Thinking

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• Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

  Nancy Friday

  Friday, Mother, Negative

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• After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Fashion, Real, Missing

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• My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mother, Appreciation, Memories

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• If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The only Father's Day tradition in my family is the annual conversation he and I have where I say, 'Hey, Dad, what do you want for Father's Day this year?' and he says, 'Nothing.' Then I ask my mom what I should get him and she says, 'He likes sandalwood soap, dangly jewelry and Chanel No. 5 perfume.'

  Michael Showalter

  Fathers Day, Dad, Years

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• My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Brother, Inspiration

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• My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Dream, Thinking

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• [My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer.

  William J. Clinton

  Mother, Attitude, Cancer

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• My mother ... had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It's extraordinary that she had such a strong sense of self and such a commitment to the future and such a strong creative sense that she could build new worlds for herself and for us out of the total devastation in her life.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, Strong, Inspiration

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• I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'

  Michelle Obama

  Mother, Kids, Thinking About You

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• I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Lonely, Affectionate

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mother, Children, Inspiration

  "What These 3 Influential Women Want Girls Everywhere to Know". Interview with Lynn Sherr, communitytable.parade.com. March 8, 2014.

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• The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Mother, Prayer, Children

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• She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mothers Day, Inspiration, Laughing

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• I finally understand / for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man / You always was committed / A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it / There's no way I can pay you back / But the plan is to show you that I understand / You are appreciated

  Tupac Shakur

  Inspiring, Mother, Men

  Song: Dear Mama

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• The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a good reason why you don't care about soccer - it's because you are an American and hating soccer is more American than mom's apple pie, driving a pick-up and spending Saturday afternoon channel-surfing with the remote control.

  Tom Weir

  Soccer, Hate, World Love

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• My mom [has] always been my hero. Watching her experience something like breast cancer was pivotal, I think in my whole family's life and experience. She is one strong lady.

  Emma Stone

  Inspiring, Mother, Strong

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• My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.

  Emma Stone

  Inspiring, Mother, Emotional

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• I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Inspiring, Mother, Strong Women

  "Tom Hiddleston: A god among men?". Interview with Annabel Brog, www.elleuk.com. June 16, 2014.

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• In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she's here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream.

  Jared Leto

  Inspiring, Girl, Mother

  "The 10 most powerful celebrity speeches of 2014" by Leanne Bayley, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. September 26, 2014.

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