Touching Mother Quotes

• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Family, Mothers Day

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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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.

  Mothers Day, Mom, Hope

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

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• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

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• A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

  Washington Irving

  Best Friend, Family, Mothers Day

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

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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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, Mothers Day

  Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

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• A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

  Princess Diana

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

  Washington Irving

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

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

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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  My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

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

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• Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Family, Mothers Day, God

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

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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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• Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Family, Marriage

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

  Agatha Christie

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

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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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• Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

  Lady Gaga

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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

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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

  Mothers Day, Mom, Inspiration

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• [A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.475, Harvard University Press

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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

  Mothers Day, Mom, Strong

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

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• A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

  Naomi Wolf

  Mother, Daughter, Self Esteem

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

  Jodi Picoult

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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

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

  Meryl Streep

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Daughter

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• If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

  Booker T. Washington

  Mothers Day, Mom, Attention

  Booker T. Washington (2009). “Up from Slavery: An Autobiography”, p.46, The Floating Press

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• There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

  Jill Churchill

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mothers Day

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