Mothers Day Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

  Mark Twain

  Family, Mom, Heart

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mom, Inspiration, Laughing

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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

  Mom, Children, Heart

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

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• It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mom, Fathers Day, Baby

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• There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

  Andrew Jackson

  Inspiring, Mom, Memories

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• Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

  Nancy Thayer

  Mom, Baby, Motherhood

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• Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this
  Than any other thing!

  William Allingham

  Home, Kissing, Mother

  William Allingham (1855). “The music master, a love story, and two series of Day and night songs”, p.177

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• It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Eye, Messages

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Spiritual, Teacher, Believe

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• I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.

  Ellen Page

  Inspiring, Daughter, Thinking

  "Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page: Bosom Buddies". Interview with Jessica Henderson, www.marieclaire.com. September 29, 2009.

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• Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

  Paul Robeson

  Inspiring, Daughter, Father

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• Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

  Robin Morgan

  Inspiring, Father, Faults

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

  Eddy Arnold

  Mean, World, Best Mother

  Song: MOTHER

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• A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Eugenics

  "Woman and the New Race" by Margaret Sanger, New York: Brentanos Publishers, (Chapter 8), 1922.

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• Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Inspiring, Children, Pregnancy

  Gro Harlem Brundtland (1993). “Population, Environment and Development”

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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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• Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspiring, Children, Educational

  "Fostering Success" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2009.

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• Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

  Kristin Davis

  Inspiring, Girl, Feminist

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Inspiring, Thinking, Stuff

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

  William Trevor

  Inspiring, Motherhood, Thinking

  William Trevor (1999). “Death in Summer”, p.145, Penguin

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