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“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”
Erma Bombeck Quotes |
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“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.”
Mildred B. Vermont Quotes |
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“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”
Tenneva Jordan Quotes |
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“We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.”
Sameerah Shareef Quotes |
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“The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.”
Hamilton Wright Mabie Quotes |
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“When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.”
Leon Blum Quotes |
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“One woman will brag about her children, while another complains about hers; they could probably swap children without swapping tunes”
Meryl Streep Quotes |
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“Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
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“A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot”
Allan Beck Quotes |
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“At the cross, her station keeping,
Stood the mournful mother, weeping,
Where He hung, the dying Lord.
[Lat., Stabat mater, dolorosa
Juxta crucem lacrymosa
Que pendebat Filius.]”
Anonymous Quotes Source: (translated by Dr. William Josiah Irons)
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“And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother
of all living.”
Bible Quotes Source: Genesis (ch. III, v. 20)
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“The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel,
until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.”
Bible Quotes Source: Judges (ch. V, v. 7)
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“Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also,
and he praiseth her.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XXXI, v. 28)
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“[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."”
Augustine Birrell Quotes Source: Obiter Dicta
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“A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: The Three Graves (st. 10)
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“The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to
her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying.
[Lat., Mater ait natae die natae filia natum
Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam.]”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: The Three Graves (st. 10)
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“There is none,
In all this cold and hollow world, no fount
Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within
A mother's heart.”
Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans Quotes Source: Siege of Valencia (sc. Room in a Palace of Valencia)
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“The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell
her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter."”
George Hokewell (Hakewell) Quotes Source: Apologie (bk. III, ch. V, sec. 9)
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“If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!”
Rudyard Kipling Quotes Source: Mother O' Mine
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“There was a place in childhood that I remember well,
And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.”
Samuel Lover Quotes Source: My Mother Dear
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“A woman's love
Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
And by its weakness overcomes.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: Legend of Brittany (pt. II, st. 43)
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“The bravest battle that ever was fought;
Shall I tell you where and when?
On the maps of the world you will find it not;
It was fought by the mothers of men.
- Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),”
Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) Quotes Source: The Bravest Battle--Mothers of Men
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“Fostering mother.
[Lat., Alma mater.]”
Old Saying Quotes Source: applied by students to the university where they have graduated
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“They say man rules the universe,
That subject shore and main
Kneel down and bless the empery
Of his majestic reign;
But a sovereign, gentler, mightier,
Man from his throne has hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.”
William Stewart Ross (used pseudonym Saladin) Quotes Source: a poem in "Woman: Her Glory, her Shame, and her God", vol. II, p. 420 (1894)
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“That it should come to this,
But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,
So excellent a king, that was to this
Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on, and yet within a month--
Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body
Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--
O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii)
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