Mother Care Quotes - Page 2

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Conduct of Life "Fate" (1860)

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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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, Mom

  Measure of my Days (1968) p. 16

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• Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

  Lady Gaga

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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

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  The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Abortion, Destroyers

  Speech at National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., February 03, 1994.

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• My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

  Mark Twain

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  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

  Aristotle

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

  Peter De Vries

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• When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.

  Tim McGraw

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

  Mother Teresa

  Death, Mother, Peace

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.97, Image

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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

  Mom, Mother, Soul

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

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• My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Mothers Day

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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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• Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

  Margaret Atwood

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  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Wilderness Tips”, p.178, Anchor

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• Mothers are all slightly insane.

  J. D. Salinger

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  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mom, Mother, Growing Up

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Talking

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.36, Random House

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  My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

  Harmon Killebrew

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

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

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• I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes

  George Carlin

  Mother, School, Kids

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• Mothers are the necessity of invention.

  Bill Watterson

  Mother, Motherhood, Invention

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• I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a roomful of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mothers care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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