Mothers Day Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

  Sloane Crosley

  Inspiring, Cities, Adults

  "I want to be alone: the rise and rise of solo living". Interview with Eric Klinenberg, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Inspiring, Broke, Stills

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspiring, Done, Caught

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Wilderness Tips”, p.178, Anchor

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• I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

  Miley Cyrus

  Inspiring, Daughter, Dream

  "Miley Cyrus Plans to Write Memoir". Disney Book Group Statement, www.reuters.com. April 23, 2008.

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• Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

  Joan of Arc

  Daughter, Kings, Father

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• If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

  Tori Amos

  Inspiring, Thinking, High Heels

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• I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

  Jane Pauley

  Inspiring, Children, Years

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• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Inspiring, Government, Reform

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• I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

  Marie Osmond

  Inspiring, Thinking, Void

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• Richer than I you can never be,
  I had a mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Reading, Mother And Son, Mother Son

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Inspiring, Mom, Daughter

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• When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

  Mike Royko

  Inspiring, Baseball, Cheating

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• If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Prayer, Motherhood, Soul

  The Light That Failed (1891) dedication

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• Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

  Erica Jong

  Inspiring, Would Be, Gaps

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• Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

  Jane D. Hull

  Inspiring, Daughter, Country

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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, Mom, Real

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.124, Reprint Services Corporation

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• It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

  Augustus Hare

  Inspiring, Baby, Half

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• Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

  Geri Halliwell

  Inspiring, Want, Mum

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• Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Inspiring, Children, Pregnancy

  Gro Harlem Brundtland (1993). “Population, Environment and Development”

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• A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Eugenics

  "Woman and the New Race" by Margaret Sanger, New York: Brentanos Publishers, (Chapter 8), 1922.

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• Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

  Paul Robeson

  Inspiring, Daughter, Father

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• I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.

  Ellen Page

  Inspiring, Daughter, Thinking

  "Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page: Bosom Buddies". Interview with Jessica Henderson, www.marieclaire.com. September 29, 2009.

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• My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

  Michael Jordan

  Mom, Roots, Mind

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