Mothers Day Quotes - Page 2

• We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Mother, Months, Our Lives

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• A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

  Robert Frost

  Mom, Women, Father Son

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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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• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Mom, Heart

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

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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, Mom

  Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

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

  George Washington

  Beautiful, Mom, Mother Daughter

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

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• Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Mom, Mother And Daughter, Motherhood

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.11

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mom, Parenting, Motherhood

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• I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

  Martina Hingis

  Inspiring, Mom, Way

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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.

  Mom, Hope, Mother Daughter

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

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  If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Hilarious, Mom

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• That best academy, a mother's knee.

  James Russell Lowell

  Family, Mom, Motherhood

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• Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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• The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

  Mike Wallace

  Mom, Motherhood, Hands

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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, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Measure of my Days (1968) p. 16

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• A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mom, Motherhood, Alive

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 (Part II): The Friend”, p.90, Princeton University Press

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• The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Family, Mom, Appreciation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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

  Aristotle

  Family, Mom, Children

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• Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mom, Philosopher, Mother

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “The Minister's Wooing”, p.176, Library of Alexandria

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• Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

  Maxim Gorky

  Mom, Baby, 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, Mom, Dad

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• I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

  Heidi Klum

  Inspiring, Everyday, Faces

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• We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

  Alveda King

  Inspiring, Moments, Should

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

  William Feather

  Mom, Children, Fun

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

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

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Witty

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