Mom Quotes - Page 5

• I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.

  Natasha Gregson Wagner

  Family, Mother, Purpose

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• Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mothers Day, Mother And Son, Mother Son

  "Mama Was My Teacher: Growing Up In A Small Southern Town" by Dozier Cade, (p. 77), 2004.

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• I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivational, Children, Funny Mother

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• A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Happiness, Smile, Mother

  "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Volume II,

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• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Mothers Day, Heart

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

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• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, God, Christian

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• Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Mothers Day, Mother And Daughter, Motherhood

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.11

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• [When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Inspiring, Mother, Real

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• Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.

  Charlotte Gray

  Mothers Day, Children, Motherhood

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• What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

  1869 Little Women, pt.2, ch.46.

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• Men are what their mothers made them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Mothers Day, Motivation

  The Conduct of Life "Fate" (1860)

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• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mothers Day, Hands, Forgiving

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• Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

  Sophocles

  Mother, Children, Silly

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 685,

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• Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Daughter, Mother

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• While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.

  Sheri L. Dew

  God, Mother Daughter, Nature

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• No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Family, Mothers Day, Mother Daughter

  Measure of my Days (1968) p. 16

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• Mother's love grows by giving.

  Charles Lamb

  Family, Mother, Giving

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.196

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• The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Mother, Memories

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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, Roots, Mind

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• I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

  Pamela Anderson

  Mother, Children, Two

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• Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Family, Mother, Feels

  John Lancaster Spalding (1899). “Things of the Mind”

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• The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

  Washington Irving

  Family, Mother, Children

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• And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Mother, Soul, Return

  Gloria Vanderbilt (1986). “Once Upon a Time: A True Story”, Fawcett Books

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

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Family, Mother, Mirrors

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

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