Motherhood Quotes
614 Motherhood quotes by 446 unique authors
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It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was…
— David Attenborough
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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me,…
— Anita Baker
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
— Honore de Balzac
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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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…
— Honore de Balzac
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
— Beck
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.
— Jill Bennett
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It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
— Milton Berle
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
— Aeschylus
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
— Erma Bombeck
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Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
— Erma Bombeck
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Conventionality is not morality.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
— Robert Browning
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I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.
— Sandra Bullock
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What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
— Louisa May Alcott
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I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm…
— George H. W. Bush
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
— Dale Carnegie
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First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
— Dale Carnegie
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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.
— Gracie Allen
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