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Mom Quotes About Love

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

Sarah Palin

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Jackie Kennedy

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Erich Fromm

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

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

Pedro Almodovar

My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk.

Jerry Hunt

Deep Mom Quotes

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

Honore de Balzac

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Miguel de Cervantes

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Augustus Hare

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

William Butler Yeats

More Mom Quotes

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Henry Ward Beecher

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

Marilyn vos Savant

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

Samuel Richardson

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Henry Ward Beecher

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Jean de la Bruyere

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

Barbara Bush

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Franz Grillparzer

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

Jim Jarmusch

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

George J. Mitchell

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

Jan de Bont

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Wallace Stevens

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Philip Levine

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Benjamin Spock

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

David Antin

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Alice Walker

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Henry Ward Beecher

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

Beth Henley

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

Dennis Banks

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

James Cronin

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

Pope Paul VI

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Quentin Crisp

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

Robert Mondavi

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

Patricia Highsmith

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

Patrick White

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

Jeremy Taylor

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

John Ashcroft

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

John C. Hawkes

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

William Dean Howells

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