Mom Quotes - Page 2

• Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  Sam Levenson

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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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, Mother Daughter

  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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• A mother is the truest friend we have.

  Washington Irving

  Mother, Truest, Happy Mothers Day

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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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• I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mother, Heart, Understanding

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• There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Mothers Day, Children

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• I really learned it all from mothers.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mothers Day, Mother, Motherhood

  "TIME" Magazine, April 8, 1985.

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mother Daughter, Baby

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beauty, Mother, Stars

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• There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

  Olive Schreiner

  Mother, Women, Reality

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883) See Proverbs 129

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• As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• Like many other moms out there, I try to buy safe products for my family, but that can't be the only solution. You can't hire a team of scientists to do your shopping for you. At some point the government has to step in and ensure that chemicals are safe before our children are exposed to them.

  Jessica Alba

  Children, Team, Government

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• But my friends are happy for me. The people who know me are happy. My mom is happy. My family is happy.

  Tom Cruise

  People, My Family, Know Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Mother, Children

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

  Tina Fey

  Inspiring, Mother, Tired

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

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• A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Children, Men

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• Some 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

  Love, Family, Mother

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

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• I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Family, Mother

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• Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mothers Day, Daughter, Fathers Day

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, September 1990.

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• Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.321

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• There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Mother, Sweet, Freedom

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). “History of Woman Suffrage”, Ayer Company Pub

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• A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

  Peter De Vries

  Funny, Mothers Day, Appreciation

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• Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

  Lisa Alther

  Funny, Mothers Day, Jobs

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

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