Best Our Mothers Quotes
70 Our Mothers quotes by 59 unique authors
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Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who…
— Kristin Davis
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They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them
— Robin Williams
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All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily…
— Herman Melville
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I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us.…
— Henrik Ibsen
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Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue…
— Philip Roth
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Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our…
— Caroline Knapp
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We have nothing to fear but our mothers.
— Anne Taintor
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With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always…
— Marguerite Duras
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
— Vera Farmiga
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Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they…
— Anna Quindlen
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For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in,…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose,…
— Kerry Washington
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never…
— Alice Walker
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
— Alice Walker
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For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers…
— Saul Williams
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A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in…
— M. Russell Ballard
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The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in…
— Mitch Albom
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The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
— Lisa See
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Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
— Marguerite Duras
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How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and…
— Elie Wiesel
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We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping,…
— Kelly Corrigan
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For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
— Virginia Woolf
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