Mum Quotes

• I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

  William Cowper

  Slavery, Sugar, Pity

  William Cowper (1858). “Works of Cowper and Thomson”, p.122

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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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• That best academy, a mother's knee.

  James Russell Lowell

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Family, Mom, Mother

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

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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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• 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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• Most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

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

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• Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Daughter

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.11

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• Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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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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• 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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• 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's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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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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• 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 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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• With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

  Isadora Duncan

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.170, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Rajneesh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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

  Meryl Streep

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Daughter

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