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Mother Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- A mother who is really a mother is never free.
- A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- 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…
- It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every…
- Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
- In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman.
- Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world…
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- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. — Margaret Atwood
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- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
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- There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video. — Dan Aykroyd
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann