Mother Proverbs Quotes - Page 2

• I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.

  Renita J. Weems

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Renita J. Weems (1993). “I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings”, Innisfree Press

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• A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

  Bob Hope

  Mothers Day, Mean, Motherhood

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• Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

  Beverley Jones

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Mom, Mother

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• 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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• Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
  Calls back the lovely April of her prime...

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Art, Glasses

  Sonnet 3

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• The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

  Mike Wallace

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

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• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, God, Christian

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• My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

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

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• An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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• Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

  Toni Morrison

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  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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• 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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  If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Family, Mom, Mother

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

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

  Rajneesh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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• No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, Prayer, Motherhood

  The Light That Failed (1891) dedication

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• 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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• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  Gift from the Sea ch. 3 (1955)

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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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• 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

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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