Mothers Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Washington Irving
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| Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. |
| - Lisa Alther |
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| Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. |
| - Aristotle |
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| A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| All mothers are working mothers. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. |
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| A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. |
| - Unknown Author |
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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. |
| - Honoré de Balzac |
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| The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. |
| - Honoré de Balzac |
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| The mother's heart is the child's school-room. |
| - Henry Ward Beecher |
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| If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? |
| - Milton Berle |
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| Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| Some mothers 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 |
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| A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. |
| - Emily Dickinson |
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| With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. |
| - Isadora Duncan |
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| He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers. |
| - Harry Emerson Fosdick |
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| Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. |
| - Erich Fromm |
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| One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage. |
| - Robert Fulghum |
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| What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? |
| - Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
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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, Sr. Holmes |
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| Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. |
| - Victor Hugo |
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| A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. |
| - Washington Irving |
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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 who rejoice with us in our sunshine 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 |
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| The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. |
| - Washington Irving |
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| Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. |
| - James Joyce |
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| Mother's love grows by giving. |
| - Charles Lamb |
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| All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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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 |
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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 |
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| That best academy, a mother's knee. |
| - James Russell Lowell |
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| The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that. |
| - Golda Meir |
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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 suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. |
| - Toni Morrison |
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| A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. |
| - Irish Proverb |
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| God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. |
| - Jewish Proverb |
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| Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. |
| - Moorish Proverb |
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| An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. |
| - Spanish Proverb |
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| A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. |
| - Victoria Secunda |
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| Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. |
| - John Lancaster Spalding |
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| Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. |
| - Meryl Streep |
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| Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. |
| - William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. |
| - Francis Thompson |
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| No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. |
| - Harry S Truman |
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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 |
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| Women who miscalculate are called mothers. |
| - Abigail Van Buren |
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| A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. |
| - Peter De Vries |
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| All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. |
| - Oprah Winfrey |
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