Mothering Quotes

• We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

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• There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

  Pope Paul VI

  Mom, Mother, Land

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• I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.

  Ginger Rogers

  Strong Women, Nice, Play

  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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• 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's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

  Agatha Christie

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

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• Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

  Maxim Gorky

  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

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• The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.

  Anna Quindlen

  Motherhood, Two, Apples

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• I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Thinking, Knowing

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Healing, Air, Feet

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.192, U of Nebraska Press

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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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  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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• There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

  Jill Churchill

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mothers Day

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• Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Family, Mother, Humorous

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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• A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

  Gaspard Mermillod

  Relationship, Mothers Day, Mom

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

  Brené Brown

  Daughter, Mother, Women

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• A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

  Jean Liedloff

  Baby, Children, Parenting

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• Mothering is one of the most beautiful experiences of my life.

  Patricia Arquette

  Beautiful, Beautiful Experiences

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Establishing Relationships, Process, Force

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• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.

  Erin Kelly

  Mother, Children, Your Mom

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