Mother Quotes - Page 2

• Mother is a verb, not a noun.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspirational, Verbs, Nouns

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• Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

  Alice Walker

  Mom, Flawed, I Can

  Alice Walker (1997). “Possessing the Secret of Joy”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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  My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

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

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• An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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• A mother is the truest friend we have.

  Washington Irving

  Mom, Truest, Happy Mothers Day

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• The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Successful, Artist, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v”

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• No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Godly, Men

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• Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

  Robert Breault

  Mom, Writing, Autobiography

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

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  Pablo Picasso

  Confidence, Encouragement, Work

  "Life with Picasso" by François Gilot, (p. 60), 1964.

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• Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mom, Forever, Chance

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• It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Mom, Compassion

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Hurt, Heart, Worry

  Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.176, Ballantine Books

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

  Tina Fey

  Inspiring, Mom, Tired

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

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• Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY

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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, Stars

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• Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Religious

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• Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Mothers Day, Mom, Hope

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.129, Reprint Services Corporation

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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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• No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

  Harold MacMillan

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

  Stevie Wonder

  Mothers Day, Mom, Sweet

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

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