Being A Mom Quotes - Page 2

• Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

  Stevie Wonder

  Mothers Day, Mom, Sweet

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

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• When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.232, Cosimo, Inc.

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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

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mom, Mother, Years

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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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• Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

  Bill Richardson

  Single Mom, Struggle, Opportunity

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• There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.

  Angelina Jolie

  Motherhood, Thinking, People

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• I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.

  Faith Ford

  Mom, Being In Love, Easier

  "TV Stars Support The Pacifier". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. March 4, 2005.

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• Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

  Ricki Lake

  Motherhood, Hardest, Inspirational Motherhood

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• The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

  Kerri Walsh

  Motherhood, Thinking, Careers

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• I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

  Emma Thompson

  Motherhood, Thinking, Best Effort

  "Between Friends". Interview with Jenny Allen, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 7, 2010.

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• There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

  Billy Sunday

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Mom, Believe, People

  "Ashlee Simpson Doesn't Envy Sister Jessica's Single-Girl Freedom" by Michael Y. Park, people.com. September 10, 2009.

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• It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

  Stephanie Mills

  Mom, Children, Son

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• Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Motherhood, Wanted, Known

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

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• Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

  Jay Leno

  Smile, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mother, Humorous, Careers

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

  Tina Fey

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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

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• A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It's unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing.

  Jennie Finch

  Baby, Motherhood, Blessing

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• Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

  Evan Bayh

  Mother, Children, Single Mom

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• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Mother, Children

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• Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

  William Feather

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

  Amy Tan

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.15, Penguin

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  My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

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

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