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Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Maxim Gorky
Only mothers can envisage the future - for they bring it forth in their offspring.
2.
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
3.
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
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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
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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Milton Berle
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A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.
Grantly Dick-Read
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A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
Princess Diana
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
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As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
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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
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
George Washington
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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
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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
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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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A mother's love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain. It is endless and unselfish and enduring, come what may, For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking.
Helen Steiner Rice
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Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
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I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
Erykah Badu
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There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
James E. Faust
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Rudyard Kipling
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
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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
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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
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There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
Jill Churchill
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Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.
Charlotte Gray
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston
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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
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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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
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I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
Adam Yauch
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Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
Lisa Alther
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)
Eddy Arnold
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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
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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
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose Bierce
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To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
Maya Angelou
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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
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It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
Roald Dahl
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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
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I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.
Martina Hingis
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One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Lawrence Welk
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
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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