Mother Quotes - Page 7

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

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

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

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• Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

  Coco Chanel

  Motivational, Strong Women, Fashion

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• I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

  Little Richard

  Being Strong, Strong Women, Husband

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

  Maya Angelou

  Teacher, Educational, Ignorance

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Mom, Daughter, Powerful

  Kathleen Ann Lawrence, Abigail Adams, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Louisa May Alcott, Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1989). “The Domestic Idiom: The Rhetorical Appeals of Four Influential Women in Nineteenth-century America”

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• I really learned it all from mothers.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  "TIME" Magazine, April 8, 1985.

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• All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

  Germaine Greer

  Mom, Opportunity, Analysis

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• There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.

  Mother Teresa

  Catholic, Important, Helping

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Country, Children, Race

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.77, Penguin

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• He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mom, Powerful, Realizing

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• One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Brother, Doors, Library

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  God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

  Muhammad

  God, Mother Daughter, Religious

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

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Mom, Son, Forever

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• My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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• My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

  Angie Dickinson

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "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, Mom, Children

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• Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

  Jay Leno

  Smile, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Boys, Affectionate

  Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 27 (written in 1896)

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

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Mom, Daughter

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• Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

  Voltaire

  Wise, Daughter, Astrology

  Voltaire (1989). “Voltaire: selections”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

  Rebecca West

  Funny, Horse, Humorous

  Letter on August 20, 1959. "Rebecca West: A Life". Book by Victoria Glendinning. Part 5, Chapter 8, p. 206, 1987.

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• If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

  Brigham Young

  Education, Daughter, Son

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• We are all pencils in the hand of God.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Spiritual, Hands

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• Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

  Katherine Howe

  Relationship, Mother Daughter, Strong

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