Mothers Day Quotes - Page 7

• So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.

  James Levine

  Inspiring, Father, Home

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• Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

  Jane Pauley

  Inspiring, Baby, Children

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• I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

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• Mothers stay close to your daughters Earn & deserve their love & respect Be united with their father in the rearing of your children Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Daughter, Children, Father

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

  Vera Farmiga

  Inspiring, Mother

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• I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

  Wilbur Smith

  Inspiring, Children, Father

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• I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

  Barbara Boxer

  Inspiring, Children, Lying

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• When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Inspiring, Government, Reform

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• The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Family, Mom, Real

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.124, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

  Jane D. Hull

  Inspiring, Daughter, Country

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• Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

  Erica Jong

  Inspiring, Would Be, Gaps

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• If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Prayer, Motherhood, Soul

  The Light That Failed (1891) dedication

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• I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!

  Jordin Sparks

  Inspiring, Eye, Kids

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

  Meryl Streep

  Mom, Mother And Daughter, Motherhood

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• I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Hurt, Children

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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• One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Children, Fall

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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• Today there are people trying take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

  Kerry Washington

  Inspiring, Grandmother, Rights

  Kerry Washington's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

  Rachel Weisz

  Inspiring, Children, Challenges

  "Rachel Weisz interview: A spy in the house of love" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2011.

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• Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

  Stevie Wonder

  Mom, Sweet, Teacher

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

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• Richer than I you can never be,
  I had a mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Reading, Mother And Son, Mother Son

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Mother And Daughter

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

  Michael Jordan

  Mom, Roots, Mind

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• A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mom, Hands, Forgiving

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• The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspiring, Confidence, Choices

  "A Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.

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