A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for
five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
~Tenneva Jordan
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Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field,
since the payment is pure love
~Mildred B. Vermont
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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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The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
~Jane Sellman
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed
before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something
absolutely new.
~Rajneesh
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If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other,
the whole world would kick the beam. ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)
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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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 Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
~Author Unknown
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
~Ambrose Bierce
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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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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
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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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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man
does. That's his.
~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
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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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Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
~Spanish Proverb
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She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take
them along.
~Margaret Culkin Banning
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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, Women and Beauty
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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
~Milton Berle
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Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson
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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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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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The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown
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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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My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and
being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.
~Graycie Harmon
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The formative period for building character for eternity is in the
nursery.
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The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more
potent than that of kings or priests.
~Author Unknown
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Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the
impossible.
~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken
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Soup for the Mother's Soul
I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine
- she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.
~Adabella Radici
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A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
~Emily Dickinson
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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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Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with
ease.
~Lisa Alther
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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the
mother.
~Beverly Jones
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“Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.”
Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)
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“The phrase "working mother" is redundant”
Jane Sellman quotes
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“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she
enjoyed it.”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never
existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is
something absolutely new.”
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh quotes (Indian Spiritual leader, 1931-1990)
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“The death of a mother is the first sorrow wept without her”
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“A mother's children are portraits of herself.”
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“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do
the impossible.”
Marion C. Garretty quotes
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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 quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who
brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
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“My mother alwa “The thing that a lot of people cannot
comprehend is that Mother Nature doesn't have a bullet with your name on
it, she has millions of bullets inscribed with 'to whom it may concern”
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“The patience of a mother might be likened to a tube of toothpaste
- it's never quite all gone”
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“The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.”
marthe Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor
(1804-14). 1769-1821)
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“Arthur: 'It's at times like this I wish I'd listened to my
mother.' Ford : 'Why, what did she say?' Arthur: 'I don't know, I never
listened.'”
Douglas Adams quotes (British comic Writer, 1952-2001)
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“I knew my mother had it in for me from a young age. My bath toys
were an electric toaster and hair-dryer.”
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“A mother's heart is always with her children.”
Proverb quotes
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“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his
mother the longest.”
Irish Proverb quotes
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“The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like
their mother's”
James Matthew Barrie quotes (Scottish Dramatist and Novelist best known
as the creator of Peter Pan, 1860-1937)
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“A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all
through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same.
How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years
ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they
change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in
1921. 1879-1955)
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“The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a
sweetheart's”
Polish Proverb quotes
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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 quotes (U.S. humorist, 1927-1996)
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“Fear is the mother of morality”
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and
Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
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“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork”
Mae West quotes (American Actress and sex symbol, 1892-1980)
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“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it.
That is your greatest gift to me.”
Alice Walker quotes (American writer, b.1944)
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“When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw
the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”
Nancy Friday quotes
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“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”
Alice Walker quotes (American writer, b.1944)
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“I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me
it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like, how did my mother
know that?”
Wendy Liebman quotes
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“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great
was ever achieved.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803- 1882)
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“When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays
3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day”
Sam Ewing quotes
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“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her
body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously
whether she will or will not be a mother.”
Margaret Sanger quotes (American Founder of the birth control movement
in the United States and an international leader in the field. 1879-1966)
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“Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian
mother in the molding of character in her children.”
Billy Graham quotes (American evangelist, b.1918)
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“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its
perfect power.”
marthe Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)
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“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an
opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good
example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make
her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher,
Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
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“The mother who spoils her child, fattens a serpent”
Spanish Proverb quotes
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“Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart”
Danish Proverb quotes
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“No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children
for signs of improvement.”
Florida Scott Maxwell quotes
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“Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother”
Ann Taylor quotes (English Author She wrote, with sister Jane, Original
Poems for Infant Minds (1804), 1782-1866)
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“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so
hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.”
Samuel Smiles quotes (Scottish author, 1812-1904)
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“What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should
have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.”
Phyllis Schlafly quotes
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