Mothers Day Quotes - Page 5

• To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspiring, Father, Struggle

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• Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.

  Charlotte Gray

  Mom, Children, Motherhood

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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

  Mom, Children, Inspirational Life

  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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• A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Happiness, Mom

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.185, The Floating Press

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• In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Angel, Heaven, Whispering

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

  Adam Yauch

  Inspiring, Long, Wife

  "Fictional character: MCA". "Beastie Boys: Video Anthology", www.imdb.com.

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• Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day.

  Doug Stanhope

  Wall, Fists, Bucks

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• You may have tangible wealth untold:
  Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
  Richer than I you can never be
  I had a Mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mom, Reading, Mother And Son

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

  Cammie McGovern

  Sacrifice, Said, Your Mum

  Cammie McGovern (2010). “Neighborhood Watch: A Novel”, p.184, Penguin

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• Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Inspiring, Children, Heart

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• Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

  Sophia Loren

  Mom, Good Friend, Want

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• I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Inspiring, Running, Kids

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

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• Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

  Gail Tsukiyama

  Mom, Strong, Children

  Gail Tsukiyama (2003). “Dreaming Water: A Novel”, p.164, Macmillan

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• Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

  Dionne Warwick

  Inspiring, Children, Impact

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• Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

  Golda Meir

  Family, Children, Motherhood

  1972 In Newsweek, 23 Oct.

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• It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

  Roald Dahl

  Mom, Children, Father

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.148, Penguin

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

  Victor Hugo

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Baby

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

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• No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, America, People

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• I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Gay, Men

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• If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

  Laurence Housman

  Marriage, Mom, Baby

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

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• Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

  James Levine

  Inspiring, Father, Kids

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• After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.

  Tracey Gold

  Inspiring, Hate, Drunk

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• Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

  Susie Orbach

  Inspiring, Daughter, Encouragement

  "Are mothers harder on their daughters - and if so, why?" by Jenny Colgan, Luisa Dillner, Anne Karpf, Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2010.

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• I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

  Vera Farmiga

  Inspiring, Mother

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• To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Inspiring, Children, Sorry

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

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