Mothers Day Messages Quotes

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Conduct of Life "Fate" (1860)

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  If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Mother, Children, Single Mom

  Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur at Hyannis Port, Mass., October 1, 1960.

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• A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

  Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

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• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, God, Christian

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• Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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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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  The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

  Rajneesh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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• Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

  Sophia Loren

  Mothers Day, Mom, Good Friend

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• Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Family, Marriage

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

  Lin Yutang

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

  Rajneesh

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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

  Sophia Loren

  Mom, Mother, Children

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

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• A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Happiness, Mothers Day

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.185, The Floating Press

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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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• 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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• Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

  James Joyce

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.282, Courier Corporation

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• A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

  Washington Irving

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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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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• Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Family, Mothers Day, God

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

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• A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

  Washington Irving

  Best Friend, Family, Mothers Day

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• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

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• Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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