Motherhood Quotes - Page 25

• The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Integrity, Men, America

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• Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

  Karl Jaspers

  Philosophy, Mean, Practice

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• Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Land, People, Giving

  'The Absentee' (1812) ch. 2

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• One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Morality

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (Selected Ideas (1799-1800) #62)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Men, Law

  'Getting Married' (1911) preface 'The Right to Motherhood'

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• Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.

  Ann Romney

  Mom, Daughter, Crowns

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• I always thought my mother was so damn cute!

  Kate Hudson

  Cute, Mother, Damn

  Interview with Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 17, 2010.

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• Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.

  Sandy Duncan

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Country, People

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• Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mother, Children, Healthy

  "Angelina Jolie won't tighten red carpet security despite Pitt getting hit", www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2014.

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• So mothers have God's license to be missed.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mother, License

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.322

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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

  Mother, Men, Poet

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

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• A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"

  Yip Harburg

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• When I woke up this morning, I found I'd turned into my mother.

  Mary Rodgers

  Mother, Morning, Found

  Mary Rodgers (2003). “Freaky Friday”

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• I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.

  Cokie Roberts

  Children, Realizing, Wanted

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• No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Song, Writing

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

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• No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.

  Mary Matalin

  Inspirational, Mother, Thinking

  Mary Matalin (2007). “Letters to My Daughters”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.

  Nelly Furtado

  Thinking, Mind, Different

  "Nelly Furtado making motherhood sexy". www.today.com. June 23, 2006.

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• When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you...then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.

  Marilyn French

  Baby, Laughing, Looks

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• Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.

  Walker Evans

  Cute, Photography, Beach

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• War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

  H. L. Mencken

  Military, War, Mean

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.23, Knopf

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• Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Baby, Children, Color

  Ellen Galinsky (1981). “Between generations: the six stages of parenthood”, Smithmark Pub

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• Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Never Quit, Wanted, Happens

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• I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mom, Kids, Parent

  "Gwyneth Lets Her Guard Down". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. January 4, 2011.

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• It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying and imitating not only males, but male fools, judging inner worth by outer performance, sacrificing being for doing, finding their identity in their worldly careers, not in their inner essence, in their physical and spiritual wombs and motherhoods. This is what Karl Stern called "the flight from woman."

  Peter Kreeft

  Spiritual, Real, Sacrifice

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