Motherhood Quotes - Page 3

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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• If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

  Bette Davis

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

  James Fenton

  Mom, Mother, Humorous

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• When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

  Amy Heckerling

  Mother, Baby, Father

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

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• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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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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• Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Mother, Pay

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• Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

  Emma Goldman

  Mom, Mother, Criminals

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.98, PM Press

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• Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.

  Meg Ryan

  Mother, Fundamentals, Able

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• It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

  Anne Tyler

  Family, Children, Writing

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• I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

  Art Linkletter

  Mom, Dog, People

  "'People Are Funny' host Art Linkletter dies" by Duane Byrge, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 26, 2010.

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  Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Money

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Trying, Devotion To God

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• How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

  Alice Walker

  Inspiring, Mother, Simple

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• More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

  Tillie Olsen

  Mean, Responsible, Humans

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• You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.

  Pink

  Beautiful, Children, Life Changing

  "Pink's Daughter Willow Sage's First Photo" by Marisa Laudadio, people.com. June 22, 2011.

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• When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.232, Cosimo, Inc.

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• God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mother, Children, Women

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• Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, Mother, Fall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.699, Delphi Classics

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• It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Powerful, Pregnancy, Growing

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• Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

  Anita Baker

  Mom, Mother, Mean

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• Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

  William Feather

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.

  Marni Jackson

  Mom, Mother, Book

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