Short Mothers Day Quotes - Page 2

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Pearl S. Buck

Love, Family, Mom

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

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Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Marilyn French

I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

Marilyn French (2013). “A Season in Hell: A Memoir”, p.245, Open Road Media

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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Mark Twain

Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

Mark Twain (1961). “Twain: Wit and Wisecracks”

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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 suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Peter De Vries

Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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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

Mothers Day, Mom, Fathers Day

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If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

Robert Breault

Family, Mom, Mother

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

Rajneesh

Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Bob Hope

Mothers Day, Mean, Motherhood

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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, Mothers Day, Mom

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

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This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Thomas Moore

Mothers Day, Mom, Heart

Thomas Moore (1872). “The poetical works of Thomas Moore, with notes”, p.570

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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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That best academy, a mother's knee.

James Russell Lowell

Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Golda Meir

Family, Mothers Day, Children

1972 In Newsweek, 23 Oct.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Mothers Day, Mom, Hope

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.129, Reprint Services 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; 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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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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Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

Lin Yutang

Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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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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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Charles R. Swindoll

Family, Friday, Mother

"Creating Fond Memories With Our Children" by Dr. Hyder Zahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Friendship, Happiness, Happy

Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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