To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
—Maya Angelou
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Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.
—Sydney Biddle Barrows
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
—James Joyce |
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes (1775-1817)
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A mother's hardest to forgive.
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.
—Phyllis McGinley
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Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.
—Toni Morrison
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The best academy, a mother's knee.
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My mother loved children—she would have given anything if I had been one.
—Groucho Marx
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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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I really learned it all from mothers.
—Dr. Benjamin Spock
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A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A boy's best friend is his mother.
—Joseph Stefano (from the Psycho screen play)
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The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
—William Ross Wallace
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Good wombs have borne bad sons.
—William Shakespeare
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
—Spanish Proverb
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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
—Meryl Streep
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A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
—Emily Dickinson
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There is nothing like a mama-hug.
—Adabella Radici
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God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
—Jewish Proverb
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
—Oprah Winfrey
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