Mother Love Quotes - Page 5

• It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Mother, Love Is, Alive

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.

  Lisa See

  Mother, Gratitude, Husband

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.4, A&C Black

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• Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.

  Menachem Begin

  Family, Mother, Peace

  Menachem Begin, Harry Zvi Hurwitz, Yisrael Medad (2011). “Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin - Anwar El-Sadat Personal Correspondence”, p.110, Gefen Publishing House Ltd

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• The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Mother, Father

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.26, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.

  Toni Morrison

  Mother, Killers, Beloved

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• When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Mother, Children, Father

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• If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Home, Names

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• All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.

  Fay Weldon

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mother, Careers, Guilt

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• What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

  Joanne Greenberg

  Mother, Baby, Gone Away

  Joanne Greenberg (1981). “Season of Delight”, Holt McDougal

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• We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Running, Father

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• Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

  Alan Beck

  Girl, Mother, Running

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• You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.

  Pam Brown

  Mom, Mother, Appreciation

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• I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.

  James Caan

  Birthday, Beautiful, Girl

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.

  Peter Sohn

  Mother, Grew Up, Shane

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Mother, Couple, Love You

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• A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in their premortal existence, Because our mothers love us, we learn, or more accurately remember, that God also loves us

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.

  Lisa See

  Mother, Country, Pain

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.2, A&C Black

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• All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Mother, Hate

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.116, Penguin

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• We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes.

  Richard Baxter

  Mother, Children, Father

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• A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.

  Erin Kelly

  Mother, Children, Important

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• Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

  Edward Abbey

  Mother, Pie, Tradition

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• There is no one perfect way to be a good mother... Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children... What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mother, Love You, Newborn

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