quotes about Mothers Day
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
-- George Eliot -
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 -
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
-- Helen Hunt JacksonSource : Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.11
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
-- Honore de Balzac -
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
-- Honore de Balzac -
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The only woman a wife should ever be jealous of is her husband's mom.
-- Jason Thomas -
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 -
As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.
-- Kristin HannahSource : Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.609, Ballantine Books
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One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
-- Lawrence Welk -
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
-- Mark Twain -
I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.
-- Phil Jones -
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
-- Robert Frost -
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
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 -
We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
-- William Jennings Bryan -
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
-- William Makepeace ThackeraySource : William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317
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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 NapierSource : 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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The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
-- Mike Wallace -
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. -
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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. -
Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.
-- Rosie O'Donnell