Text Quotes Collection

Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother.
- Gregory Nunn

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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
- W. Somerset Maugham

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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
- James Fenton

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No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell

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Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
- Betty Rollin

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Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women’s opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.
- Elaine Heffner

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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
- James Joyce

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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone

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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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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 who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken 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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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That best academy, a mother’s knee.
- James Russell Lowell

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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

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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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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
- Irish Proverb

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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