Mothers Day Quotes - Page 8

• I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Spiritual, Teacher, Believe

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• It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Eye, Messages

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

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• A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mom, Hands, Forgiving

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• Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

  Stevie Wonder

  Mom, Sweet, Teacher

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

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• Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this
  Than any other thing!

  William Allingham

  Home, Kissing, Mother

  William Allingham (1855). “The music master, a love story, and two series of Day and night songs”, p.177

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• The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspiring, Confidence, Choices

  "A Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.

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• Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

  Nancy Thayer

  Mom, Baby, Motherhood

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• My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

  Mark Twain

  Family, Mom, Heart

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mom, Inspiration, Laughing

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• There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

  Andrew Jackson

  Inspiring, Mom, Memories

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• It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mom, Fathers Day, Baby

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• Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

  Toni Morrison

  Mom, Children, Heart

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

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• The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Mother And Daughter

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

  Rachel Weisz

  Inspiring, Children, Challenges

  "Rachel Weisz interview: A spy in the house of love" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2011.

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• I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!

  Jordin Sparks

  Inspiring, Eye, Kids

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• MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

  Eddy Arnold

  Mean, World, Best Mother

  Song: MOTHER

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• Today there are people trying take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

  Kerry Washington

  Inspiring, Grandmother, Rights

  Kerry Washington's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Children, Fall

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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• I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Hurt, Children

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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• Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

  Robin Morgan

  Inspiring, Father, Faults

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

  Meryl Streep

  Mom, Mother And Daughter, Motherhood

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• No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Inspiring, Country, War

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• I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

  Wallace Shawn

  Inspiring, Believe, People

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• I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

  William Trevor

  Inspiring, Motherhood, Thinking

  William Trevor (1999). “Death in Summer”, p.145, Penguin

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• As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Inspiring, Children, Nice

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