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Mothers Are Quotes

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father, she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?
- Jodi Picoult

I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch over younger women, children, community and also, why not? this mistreated planet, the victim of such unrelenting desecration.
- Isabel Allende

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
- Mary Antin

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
- Aristotle

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
- Evan Bayh

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
- F H Bradley

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.
- Neal Shusterman

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.
- Helena Bonham Carter

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")
- A E Coppard

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
- Alan Cumming

All mothers are proud of their children, Jena. I would have been very proud of my child if I had gotten the chance to know him or her. Someday, if you become a mother, you will be proud of your children. It is just the way mothers are.
- Sara Jo Easton

I love you as the mother of my child: the kiss of death.
Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.
- Suzanne Finnamore

The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
- Victor Hugo

...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
- Victor Hugo

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
- Maggie Gallagher

Mothers are the diamonds that God gave us when we were born
- Michelle Geaney

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
- Thomas Hardy

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
- Angelina Grimke

Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the enviroment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
- Arianna Huffington

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.
- Janis Joplin

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.
- Joel Kinnaman

Mothers are like dungeons. Some really stink and you'll do anything to avoid them. And some are lush sanctuaries filled with gold, jewels, and butterscotch schnapps-spiked Nestle Nesquik.
- Shelly Mazzanoble

Sometimes the thought of his mother working so hard while he did nothing would come suddenly upon his and he would rush off and try to help her, but whatever he did turned out wrong....So that it always ended in his mother saying, 'Oh, run along for goodness' sakes, and let me get on with my work.' And then Jack would go and lie on his front...and make up pretty poems about the Dignity of Labor, or about how dear and good mothers are.
- E Nesbit

Mothers are the necessity of invention.
- Bill Watterson

Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agonyForgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
- Erich Maria Remarque

But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
- Erich Maria Remarque

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
- Adrienne Rich

Mothers are all slightly insane.
- J D Salinger

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
- Margaret Walker

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