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If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins. -- Henry Williamson
Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of nurturance known as The Goddess, so revered in ancient times and being rediscovered by women today. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
There was never a great man who had not a great mother. -- Olive Schreiner
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. -- D. H. Lawrence
My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman. -- Tory Burch
Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance. -- Holger Czukay
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. -- Rachel Carson
Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement. -- Oscar Wilde
Me, personally, I'm just happy. I have a great mother. I have two great sisters. I couldn't ask for more. I'm healthy. I do what I love. -- SonReal
Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between. -- Charlize Theron
The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood. -- Camille Paglia
The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you, all of it - the murderer, the great mother, the therapist, the husband. Everything is inside of us. -- Jane Lynch
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum I know I am a great mother. -- Kate Winslet
I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother. -- Eva Mendes
Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one. -- Rufus Wainwright
Men, learn to speak blessings over your wife and you will see that woman rise to a new level. She will respond to your praise and encouragement. Your words don't have to be poetic, fancy, or profound. Tell her simply but sincerely, "You're a great mother to our children. And you are a great wife to me. I'm so glad I can always count on you." -- Joel Osteen
Even my great grand-mother did impressions -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner. -- Elbert Hubbard
The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins. -- Jose Andres Puerta
Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death. -- Kathleen Kennedy
Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism. -- Jessi Colter
I wish I had a great relationship with my mother. -- Chely Wright
I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic. -- Iris Apfel
Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it. -- Christopher Heyerdahl
Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings. -- Nhat Hanh
Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings. -- Nhat Hanh
Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother. -- Kate Winslet
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds. -- Swami Vivekananda
I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element. -- Greg Bryk
A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation. -- Hafez Ibrahim
No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does. -- Mary Matalin
My mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me. -- Katherine Heigl
A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind. -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook. -- Coolio
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other. -- Tori Amos
I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother. -- Laozi
Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother. -- Fran Lebowitz
My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it. -- Marc Chagall
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. -- Mark Twain
A great woman has three identities: a lovely daughter, a passionate lover, and a kind mother. -- Debasish Mridha
My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening. -- Zoe Wanamaker
Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos -- Alice Randall
I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist. -- Sonia Manzano
I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life. -- Adam Sandler
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. -- Julie Andrews
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort. -- Graham Swift
My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will. -- Fiona Wood
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. -- Gunter Grass
We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things. -- Arlo Guthrie
My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well. -- Dorothy Hamill
One of the great things about my mother is she really valued people's character more than what they did. -- Hillary Clinton
Real Womanhood isnâ??t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father. -- Ann Voskamp
I have such respect for women. My mother was one of the great people I've of known in my life. -- Donald Trump
Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men. -- Toba Beta
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? -- Rose Kennedy
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted. -- Dan Rather
As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that. -- Vera Wang
One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister. -- Robert Breault
...and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams. -- Diane Keaton
Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray. -- Dominique Moceanu
I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance. -- Bong Joon-ho
I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer -- James Patterson
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I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life. -- Marilyn Sewell
Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother. -- Charlie Huston
Out of Ireland have we come. Great hatred, little room,Maimed us at the start.I carry from my mother's wombA fanatic heart. -- W.B. Yeats
Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. -- James E. Faust
I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother. -- Jared Leto
I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great. Before I was your mother, I was a girl. -- Beth Lyon Barnett
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
Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things. -- Raymond Arroyo
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. -- Larry Elder
I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45. -- Amy Grant
My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great. -- Roz Chast
My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.' -- Randy Pausch
I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends. -- Ivanka Trump
Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization. -- Ellen Key
The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride. -- Ed Koch
It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother -- Joyce Maynard
My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother. -- Doris Lessing
I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie. -- Patsy Kensit
My mother encouraged me and was very great about me being gay, but she always encouraged me to follow my musical dreams, which I'm very grateful for. -- Elton John
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece. -- Rose Kennedy
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife. -- Patti Smith
I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending. -- Jack Whitehall
My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for people who are struggling with disease. -- John Lloyd Young
My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather. -- Claire Denis
When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money. -- Bill Murray
I've managed to get some beautiful bags. I have a great collection, and so does my mother. My favourite is a purple one by Gucci, which I take everywhere! -- Becki Newton
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. -- John H. Johnson
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit. -- Donald Barthelme
It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa -- Mother Teresa

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