Mother's Love Quotes - Page 2

• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

  Mark Twain

  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

  Mark Twain (1961). “Twain: Wit and Wisecracks”

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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, Mom, Mother

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• Mother's love grows by giving.

  Charles Lamb

  Family, Mom, Mother

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

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• Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Mother, Kids

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

  Kristin Hannah

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.609, Ballantine Books

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• The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

  Erich Fromm

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Running, Jobs

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Pigs in Heaven: Novel, A”, p.25, Harper Collins

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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, Mom

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

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• What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Mom, Mother, Son

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• Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

  Jill Bennett

  Marriage, Mom, Mother

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• If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

  Booker T. Washington

  Mothers Day, Mom, Attention

  Booker T. Washington (2009). “Up from Slavery: An Autobiography”, p.46, The Floating Press

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• Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

  Gail Tsukiyama

  Mothers Day, Mom, Strong

  Gail Tsukiyama (2003). “Dreaming Water: A Novel”, p.164, Macmillan

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• A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Mom, Mother, Children

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

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• No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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

  Sam Levenson

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Happiness, Mothers Day

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.185, The Floating Press

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• This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
  With love's true instinct, back to thee!

  Thomas Moore

  Mothers Day, Mom, Heart

  Thomas Moore (1872). “The poetical works of Thomas Moore, with notes”, p.570

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  The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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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, Mom

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

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• My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

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

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• Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

  Lin Yutang

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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• There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

  Jill Churchill

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mothers Day

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• The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.124, Reprint Services Corporation

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