Being A Mom Quotes - Page 5

• 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, Mom, Mother

  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, Mom, Children

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Mom, Mother, Powerful

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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, Mom, Mother Daughter

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

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• [A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.475, Harvard University Press

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• My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

  Michael Jordan

  Mothers Day, Mom, Roots

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• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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• A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

  Gaspard Mermillod

  Relationship, Mothers Day, Mom

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• I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in general or from men onto women - it's a lot. And when it comes to being a mom, I wish everyone could band together and realize that everyone has different beliefs, different styles, and different things that work them and their family.

  Hilary Duff

  Mom, Life Lesson, Men

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• When you're in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you're doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.

  Connie Schultz

  Mom, Mother, Running

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• Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

  Sophia Loren

  Mothers Day, Mom, Good Friend

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• Being a mom has been the greatest job of my life. I am so proud of the people my children are. I can't really say why they've turned out so well. I think there's an enormous amount of honesty and communication in our home. I always tell my kids they can tell me anything and I will never judge them. Consequently, they do!

  Lois Robbins

  Mom, Jobs, Children

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• Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.

  Rose Kennedy

  Mother, Baby, Single Mom

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• A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

  James Agee

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.'

  David Finkelstein

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Donald Woods Winnicott (2005). “Playing and Reality”, p.149, Psychology Press

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• Children are gleeful barbarians.

  Joe Morgenstern

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Mom, Mother

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.

  Shelley Long

  Mom, Mother, Love Is

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• To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mom, Mother, Responsibility

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• The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mom, Children, Memories

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mother, Mom And Daughter, Hug

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• If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

  Jessamyn West

  Baby, Want, Being A Parent

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided.

  Robert Breault

  Mother, Single Mom, Love Is

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