A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ...
Victor Hugo
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ...
Honore de Balzac
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A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician. ...
Emma Bonino
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. ...
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Children are the anchors of a mother's life. ...
Sophocles
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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. ...
Anita Baker
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. ...
Camille Paglia
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I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. ...
Ellen DeGeneres
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I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's. ...
Kate Hudson
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I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl. ...
Sandra Bullock
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread. ...
Candice Bergen
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time. ...
Barbara Bush
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I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally. ...
David Rockefeller
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ...
Abraham Lincoln
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I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing "Maria" from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up. ...
Adam Sandler
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I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me. ...
Art Linkletter
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I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids! ...
Arianna Huffington
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I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place. ...
Zhang Ziyi
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I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform. ...
Sandra Bullock
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I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me. ...
Martina Hingis
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I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values. ...
Al Sharpton
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I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me. ...
Carol Burnett
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I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy. ...
Toni Braxton
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I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom. ...
Susie Bright
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I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose. ...
Joely Fisher
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If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay. ...
Larisa Oleynik
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ...
Edward W. Howe
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If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies? ...
Charles Pierce
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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment. ...
Honore De Balzac
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. ...
George Eliot
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Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped. ...
Loretta Lynn
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Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? ...
Emma Goldman
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. ...
Arnold Bennett
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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ...
Erich Fromm
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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ...
Meryl Streep
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Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched. ...
Paul Harris
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. ...
Rebecca West
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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working. ...
Alice Hoffman
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ...
Aristotle
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My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age. ...
Toby Keith
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My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating. ...
Ben Affleck
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ...
Pablo Picasso
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My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled. ...
Carly Fiorina
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My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. ...
Clay Aiken
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My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully. ...
Chris Brown
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My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done. ...
Buck Owens
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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
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job. ...
Ed Bradley
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My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever. ...
Andy Partridge
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My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them. ...
Milo Ventimiglia
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Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother. ...
Annette Funicello
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Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. ...
Maxim Gorky
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ...
Barbara Kingsolver
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ...
Ambrose Bierce
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. ...
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. ...
Henry Ward Beecher
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The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection. ...
Arianna Huffington
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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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The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother. ...
Dorothy Fields
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