Mother's Day Quotes - Page 2

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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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

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  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

  Barbara Kingsolver

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  Barbara Kingsolver (2001). “Homeland and Other Stories”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 (Part II): The Friend”, p.90, Princeton University Press

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• Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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• Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

  George Eliot

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Family, Marriage

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

  Honore de Balzac

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  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

  James Joyce

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  James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.282, Courier Corporation

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• Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

  Aristotle

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  The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  Theodore Hesburgh

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• Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

  Ambrose Bierce

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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

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• Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

  Sophia Loren

  Mothers Day, Mom, Good Friend

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• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Family, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

  Andrew Jackson

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• Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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  "Mama Was My Teacher: Growing Up In A Small Southern Town" by Dozier Cade, (p. 77), 2004.

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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

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• If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

  Laurence Housman

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  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

  George Eliot

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Happiness, Mothers Day

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.185, The Floating Press

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• 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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