Beloved Mother Quotes

• A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

  Washington Irving

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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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 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

  Best Friend, Family, Mothers Day

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• Yesterday evening I received a call that a person had located a body and the investigators from SDSD Homicide Division described our beloved mother, Sally Estabrook. Thank you all for your prayers, your good thoughts, and positive vibes.

  Dave Mustaine

  Mother, Prayer, Yesterday

  FaceBook post by Dave Mustaine from Nov 27, 2014

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• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Family, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image

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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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• Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

  David Mitchell

  Mother, Book, Used

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.357, Random House

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• Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Son, Beloved

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.113, Knopf

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• I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.

  John Marshall

  Mother, Heart, Character

  John Marshall (2000). “The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, January 1824-March 1827”

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• My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.

  Doris Grumbach

  Mother, Father, Water

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every one of us, in our own little comfortable ways, contributes daily to that destruction. It's time now to awaken in each one of us the respect and attention our beloved Mother deserves.

  Ed Asner

  Mother, Loss, Quality

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• We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.

  Shirley Temple

  Mother, Years, Wife

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• We have to get to the Self beyond its physical and mental instrumentalities to realize we are not fragile mortal beings; there is an unbroken link between ourselves and the Beloved Mother of the Universe, the Divine Consciousness flowing through and permeating Infinity.

  Daya Mata

  Mother, Self, Soul

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