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  • Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. -- John F. Kennedy
  • Mothers can forgive anything! -- Louisa May Alcott
  • Mothers are all slightly insane. -- J. D. Salinger
  • I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task. -- Sherri Shepherd
  • Mothers are the necessity of invention. -- Bill Watterson
  • Mothers are generally starvers or feeders -- Fiona Wood
  • Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Mothers are not supposed to give guidance. -- Yoko Ono
  • Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing. -- Gretchen Wilson
  • Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth. -- William R. Webb
  • Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. -- A. E. Coppard
  • Mothers can get weaned as well as babies. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  • Back-to-School Chats - Advice from Mothers to their Daughters -- George Bradt
  • Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children. -- Karen Russell
  • Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me. -- John Kennedy Toole
  • Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy. -- Thomas Hobbes
  • Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes. -- Kate Winslet
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  • Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention -- Margaret Mead
  • Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years! -- Richard Hammond
  • Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions. -- Rosalind Wiseman
  • Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse. -- Paul Lynde
  • In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth. -- Randy Susan Meyers
  • Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough. -- Peg Bracken
  • Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men. -- Robert Browning
  • Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present. -- Janice Dickinson
  • Mothers are the ultimate executives. Instead of raising profits they are raising humanity. -- Virginia Burges
  • People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance. -- Peter V. Brett
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  • Biology makes us Mothers & Fathers, whats in the heart makes us Mom's and Dad's -- Kevin Heath
  • Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed. -- Robert Bloch
  • Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. -- Maurice Sendak
  • Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein. -- Victor Hugo
  • Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • I really doubt whether evolution ever works, how then come Mothers have only two hands -- Milton Berle
  • Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth. -- Margaret Dilloway
  • Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. -- Bill Cosby
  • The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer. -- Floyd Red Crow Westerman
  • Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers -- Edwin Arnold
  • Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it. -- Jo-Ann Mapson
  • But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane. -- J. D. Salinger
  • Mothers! They promise you they'll never get married again, and next thing you know you're a bridesmaid. -- Mindy Schanback
  • Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. -- Aristotle
  • Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen. -- Carrie Fisher
  • Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies. -- Coco Rocha
  • Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined. -- John Stevens Cabot Abbott
  • Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world. -- Benjamin Rush
  • Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment. -- Vivian Vande Velde
  • I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it. -- Lauren Bacall
  • Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins. -- Pam Brown
  • I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road. -- Jimmy Carl Black
  • Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful. -- Elmina Shepard Taylor
  • Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles. -- Sharon Jaynes
  • We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers. -- Jimmy Carl Black
  • Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes. -- Kaye Gibbons
  • Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves. -- Susie Orbach
  • Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market. -- Neil Young
  • A question may be asked, 'Will mothers have their children in eternity?' Yes! Yes! Mothers, you shall have your children. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children. -- Laura Schlessinger
  • We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never. -- Mack Sennett
  • After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me. -- Tracey Gold
  • Mothers give us life, love, and the heartfelt inclination to cry, 'I want my mommy,' no matter how old we get." -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • Mothers of today have no greater opportunity and no more serious challenge than to do all they can to strengthen the home. -- L. Tom Perry
  • Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise -- James Blunt
  • Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad. -- George R. R. Martin
  • Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication. -- Richard Louv
  • Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit. -- Anne Lamott
  • Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to me. -- Kellyanne Conway
  • Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us. -- Kim Hyesoon
  • Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you. -- Louisa May Alcott
  • Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice. -- Rita Mae Brown
  • Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. -- Maggie Gallagher
  • Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. -- Maggie Gallagher
  • Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. -- Gail Tsukiyama
  • Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one. -- Phyllis Diller
  • Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun. -- Bob Dylan
  • To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure. -- Fanny Fern
  • I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child. -- Catherynne M. Valente
  • Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word. -- Will Rogers
  • When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas. -- Billy Bob Thornton
  • We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex. -- Jimmy Carl Black
  • God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. -- Rudyard Kipling
  • Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. -- Cathy Guisewite
  • I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me. -- Eazy-E
  • Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women. -- Ellen Barkin
  • Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. -- Mike Royko
  • I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. -- Erykah Badu
  • Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. -- Will Durant
  • I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere. -- Melinda Gates
  • The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. -- Pearl S. Buck
  • By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones. -- Louis de Bernieres
  • I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. -- Mother Jones
  • There's a certain amount of pain and heartache that goes with being the mother of a star and that all the mothers experience. It's not being with them as much as you like. -- Georgia Holt
  • Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. -- Allan Bloom
  • Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working. -- Alice Hoffman
  • Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless. -- Joan of Arc
  • To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20. -- Marian Wright Edelman
  • I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs. -- Brooke Burke
  • It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul. -- Caroline Kennedy
  • World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size. -- Donella Meadows
  • It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more. -- Ann Romney
  • To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry. -- Malcolm Turnbull
  • All mothers are slightly insane... -- J. D. Salinger
  • Welfare mothers make better lovers. -- Neil Young
  • Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Guilt is unavoidable for mothers. -- Linda Gray
  • All mothers are working mothers. -- Phyllis Diller
  • Men often marry their mothers. -- Edna Ferber
  • Kids are anchors of mothers' life -- Sophocles
  • ...most mothers kiss and scold together. -- Pearl S. Buck
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