Mother Quotes - Page 13

• Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mothers Day, Mom, Philosopher

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “The Minister's Wooing”, p.176, Library of Alexandria

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• I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Father, Thinking

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• My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

  Herbie Mann

  Father, Russia, Romania

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Good Morning, Humor

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• Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

  Gail Tsukiyama

  Mothers Day, Mom, Strong

  Gail Tsukiyama (2003). “Dreaming Water: A Novel”, p.164, Macmillan

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• I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Beautiful, Mom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

  Winston Churchill

  Mom, Stars, Childhood

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.

  Pope Francis

  Children, War, Enemy

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• We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

  Adam Phillips

  Psychology, Understanding, Wish

  "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life".

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• Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific.

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Encouragement, Motivation, Powerful

  Speech to Women's Institute, Ontario, Canad, 2007.

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• We have to be women we want our daughters to be.

  Brené Brown

  Daughter, Women, Being A Mom

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• My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

  John Wesley

  Mom, Guiding Principles, Source

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• A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

  Tim Howard

  Children, Character, Example

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• We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Father, Opportunity, Rights

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• My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.

  Daphne Merkin

  Home, World, Source

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• I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.

  Monte Irvin

  Brother, Father, Thinking

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• The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Mom, Sports, Commitment

  "Mike Krzyzewski on The American Dream". www.achievement.org.

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• I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Poet, He Man

  Walt Whitman (1902). “The poems of Walt Whitman”, p.35, Рипол Классик

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• In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

  C. Everett Koop

  Christian, Years, Medicine

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• I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Depression, Suicide, Father

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• My mother has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room where she is being kept comfortable. Thank you for your continued support.

  Melissa Rivers

  Support, Care, Rooms

  "Daughter: Joan Rivers leaves ICU, 'kept comfortable' in private room" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2014.

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• Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.

  Charley Pride

  Like Her, Talkative, Persons

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• We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

  Nhat Hanh

  Moving, Fall, Ideas

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