Mother Quotes - Page 8

• Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Family, Humorous, Motherhood

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• When a child is born the mother also is born again.

  Gilbert Parker

  Children, Born Again, Born

  Gilbert Parker (1913). “The lane that had no turning and other associated tales concerning the people of Pontiac. Parables of a province”

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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, Children

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• Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

  Jay Leno

  Smile, Mothers Day, Mom

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• I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.

  Renita J. Weems

  Mom, Daughter, Bridges

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

  Aristotle

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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

  Sophia Loren

  Mom, Children, Thinking

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

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• Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Mom, Home, Matter

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• There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

  Billy Sunday

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

  Joanna Lumley

  Dog, Believe, Mean

  "Joanna Lumley: Animals Are Just Like Us". Interview with Dan Mathews, www.peta.org. December 6, 2010.

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• Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

  Meryl Streep

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Daughter

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• Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Father, Mother And Father

  "The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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• No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

  Harry S. Truman

  Family, Mom, Viewpoints

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

  Etta James

  Music, Song, Creativity

  FaceBook post by Etta James from Aug 28, 2013

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• It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.

  Paula Giddings

  Fall, Voice, Space

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• I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties.

  Cindy Crawford

  Party, Believe, School

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• The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Joy, Excess, Thrive

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.230, Cambridge University Press

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• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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• Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents.
  Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Peace, Children

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

  Mary Pride

  Daughter, Race, Generations

  Mary Pride (1985). “The Way Home: Beyond Feminism, Back to Reality”, Good News Pub

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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

  Marriage, Mothers Day, Mom

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

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• Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mom, Baby, Children

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.321

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