Mother And Son Quotes - Page 2

• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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• If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

  Dalai Lama

  Clever, Inspiration, Meditation Practice

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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

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• That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

  Lauryn Hill

  Mother, Strong, Son

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

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

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Confidence, Mother, Son

  "A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung und Wahrheit" (1917)

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• A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

  Benjamin West

  Mother, Son, Kissing

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Perseverance, Men

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, part II, book IV, chapter 38., 1605-1615.

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• Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.

  A. E. Coppard

  Mom, Mother, Son

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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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• I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

  Frances Harper

  Mother, Moving, Son

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• Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!

  Booth Tarkington

  Mother, Angel, Son

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.56, Booklassic

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• But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

  Mary Balogh

  Mother, Lonely, Son

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.59, Delacorte Press

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• A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Mom, Mother, Children

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

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• Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

  Epictetus

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!

  Mary Engelbreit

  Mother, Baby, Son

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• I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.

  Aimee Bender

  Life, Mother, Baby

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• A boy's best friend is his mother.

  Joseph Stefano

  Movie, Family, Mom

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.

  Robin Sharma

  Mother, Children, Son

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.1, Jaico Publishing House

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• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Family, Mothers Day

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Mother, Method

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• It's necessary to readjust and then try again. And then readjust and try again. Fathers have to do that with sons and mothers have to do that with daughters. The level of readjustment isn't quite so much when fathers are dealing with daughters and mothers are dealing with sons.

  James Spader

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  "James Spader: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2009.

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Son

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

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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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