Motherhood Quotes - Page 23

• My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.

  Joan Rivers

  Cousin, Parenting, Birth

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• My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

  Joan Rivers

  Memories, Parenting, Childhood

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.13, Penguin

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• There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.

  Jodie Foster

  Mom, Growing Up, Kids

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• Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.

  Eve Arden

  Mother, Tombstone, Wife

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• The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Revenge, Istanbul

  "New Writing" edited by Malcolm Bradbury and Judy Cooke, 1992.

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• Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before.

  Ellen Greene

  Inspirational, Mother, Baby

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• Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.

  L. Tom Perry

  Powerful, Home, Parenting

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• Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.

  William R. Webb

  Mother, Scrapbooking, Earth

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• Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Courage, Powerful

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• I dig being a mother.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Mother, Being A Mother

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• In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Mother, Vaudeville

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• My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at great financial and personal sacrifice...They reflect honor to mothers who sacrificed to remain home for their children's benefit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Mother, Children, Powerful

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• Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mother, Children, Fall

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding, it is you. Rise up, oh women of Zion, rise up to the great challenge which faces you. My message to you, my challenge to you, my prayer is that you will rededicate yourselves to the strengthening of your homes.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Home, Zion

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• Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Mother, Cost, Profit

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• Do without if you need to, but don't do without mother.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Mother, Needs, Ifs

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• Motherhood was the beginning of my own journey asking the question, 'Why am I here?' I had to stop and think: What am I doing to teach my daughter? What do I believe in?

  Madonna Ciccone

  Daughter, Believe, Journey

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• It's incredible. Everything you ever thought about love just becomes night and day. I mean, you never thought you could love that much. You rediscover the world, and it's just a beautiful thing.

  David Arquette

  Beautiful, Mean, Night

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• And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.

  Allen Toussaint

  Mother, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you can be a typist and a mom; that you can be a Vice President and a mom. One of the two things will win. Now look at your Bible and ask what you have to do.

  Alistair Begg

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Soul, Sorrow

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• To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mom, Mother, Responsibility

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• We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.

  Adrian G. Duplantier

  Mom, Mother, Government

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• Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mother, Religious, Children

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.292, ShandonPress

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