Mom Quotes - Page 3

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

  Robert Breault

  Family, Mother, Daughter

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

  Meryl Streep

  Mothers Day, Mother And Daughter, Motherhood

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• Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mothers Day, Philosopher, Mother

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “The Minister's Wooing”, p.176, Library of Alexandria

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• Mothers are all slightly insane.

  J. D. Salinger

  Funny, Mother, Parenting

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.

  Renita J. Weems

  Family, Mother, Running

  Renita J. Weems (1993). “I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings”, Innisfree Press

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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

  Mothers Day, Children, Heart

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

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• My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, "Just wait."

  Judy Tenuta

  Success, Daughter, Mother

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• If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

  Booker T. Washington

  Mothers Day, Attention, Done

  Booker T. Washington (2009). “Up from Slavery: An Autobiography”, p.46, The Floating Press

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• My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mother Daughter

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

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• Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

  Beverley Jones

  Funny, Family, Mother

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• A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mothers Day, Motherhood, Alive

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 (Part II): The Friend”, p.90, Princeton University Press

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• Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

  James Joyce

  Family, Mothers Day, Motherhood

  James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.282, Courier Corporation

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• Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Family, Mother, Routine

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

  Maya Angelou

  Mothers Day, Mother Daughter, Fall

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.49, Modern Library

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• That best academy, a mother's knee.

  James Russell Lowell

  Family, Mothers Day, Motherhood

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mother Daughter

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• Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

  Hosea Ballou

  Family, Education, Mother

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Happiness, Mothers Day

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.185, The Floating Press

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• The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr

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• When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

  Dick Gregory

  Mother, Father, Helping

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

  Martina Hingis

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Way

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• The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Uplifting, Mother

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• Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Mothers Day, Children, Inspirational Life

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, Motherhood, Mother Love

  The Light That Failed (1891) dedication

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• He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Powerful, Realizing

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