Mothers Day Quotes - Page 6

• I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

  Wilbur Smith

  Inspiring, Children, Father

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• Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

  Augustus Napier

  Inspiring, Children, Father

  Augustus Y. Napier, PhD (2010). “The Fragile Bond: In Search of an Equal, Intimate and Enduring Marriage”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

  Barbara Boxer

  Inspiring, Children, Lying

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• Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

  Jane Pauley

  Inspiring, Baby, Children

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• So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.

  James Levine

  Inspiring, Father, Home

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• Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Inspiring, Children, Sleep

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• That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

  Frances Farmer

  Inspiring, Children, Father

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• The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

  Ellen Barkin

  Inspiring, Honesty, Real

  "Ellen Barkin Talks “Another Happy Day”: 'I’ve been waiting for a part this good for my entire career.'" by Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2011.

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• But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

  June Jordan

  Friendship, Inspiring, Young Mother

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• I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

  Brooke Burke

  Inspiring, Children, Motherhood

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• I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

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• Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.

  Richard Codey

  Inspiring, Mom, Real

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• So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

  Alan Cumming

  Positive, Inspiring, Thinking

  "Alan Cumming Interview". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• Mothers stay close to your daughters Earn & deserve their love & respect Be united with their father in the rearing of your children Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Daughter, Children, Father

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Christian, Strong

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

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• It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important and it has to be people who are present, you know and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

  James Earl Jones

  Inspiring, Children, Father

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Thinking

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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, Mom, Food

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• A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Inspiring, Father, War

  "U.S. News & World Report", Vol. 110, Issues 5, (p. 32), February 11, 1991.

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• For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Grandmother, Careers

  "A Woman’s Place" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. July 11 & 18, 2011.

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• It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

  Ann Romney

  Inspiring, Mom, Daughter

  Ann Romney addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 28, 2012.

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• The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspiring, Children, Taken

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspiring, Thinking, Example

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• Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspiring, Wise, Children

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

  F. H. Bradley

  Inspiring, Girl, Children

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 23, 1930.

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