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Mother Quotes: “You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don’t want them out of guilt, and I don’t want them if you’re not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.” — Anne Lamott

451. “You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don’t want them out of guilt, and I don’t want them if you’re not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.”

— Anne Lamott

Mother Quotes: “Deprivation is the mother of poetry.” — Leonard Cohen

452. “Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”

— Leonard Cohen

Mother Quotes: “What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.” — George Orwell

453. “What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.”

— George Orwell

Mother Quotes: “Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.” — Rachel Carson

454. “Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.”

— Rachel Carson

Mother Quotes: “I inherited depression from my mother’s side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.” — Buzz Aldrin

455. “I inherited depression from my mother’s side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.”

— Buzz Aldrin

Mother Quotes: “If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?” — Virginia Woolf

456. “If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”

— Virginia Woolf

Mother Quotes: “My heart was broken when I realized my daughter had a problem. I pray every day for her.” — Columba Bush

457. “My heart was broken when I realized my daughter had a problem. I pray every day for her.”

— Columba Bush

Mother Quotes: “Experiment is the mother of knowledge.” — Madeleine L'Engle

458. “Experiment is the mother of knowledge.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

Mother Quotes: “My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That’s my job. And that’s where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I’m not only their mother. I’m still who I was before, I just don’t get to be it all the time.” — Pat Benatar

459. “My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That’s my job. And that’s where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I’m not only their mother. I’m still who I was before, I just don’t get to be it all the time.”

— Pat Benatar

Mother Quotes: “The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don’t.” — Oscar Wilde

460. “The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don’t.”

— Oscar Wilde

Mother Quotes: “So mothers have God’s license to be missed.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

461. “So mothers have God’s license to be missed.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mother Quotes: “My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You’ll be singing for the world someday.” — Johnny Cash

462. “My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You’ll be singing for the world someday.”

— Johnny Cash

Mother Quotes: “One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can’t cope with.” — Douglas Adams

463. “One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can’t cope with.”

— Douglas Adams

Mother Quotes: “My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.” — S. E. Hinton

464. “My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.”

— S. E. Hinton

Mother Quotes: “I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.” — Elizabeth Taylor

465. “I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

Mother Quotes: “The State’s your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.” — H. G. Wells

466. “The State’s your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.”

— H. G. Wells

Mother Quotes: “I don’t believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.” — Billy Sunday

467. “I don’t believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.”

— Billy Sunday

Mother Quotes: “My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, “Oh, my. I was so mistaken.” The world isn’t what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.” — Byron Katie

468. “My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, “Oh, my. I was so mistaken.” The world isn’t what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.”

— Byron Katie

Mother Quotes: “You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career – or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.” — Michelle Obama

469. “You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career – or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.”

— Michelle Obama

Mother Quotes: “My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.” — Sade Adu

470. “My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.”

Mother Quotes: “The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.” — Henry David Thoreau

471. “The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Mother Quotes: “No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn’t do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.” — Margaret Atwood

472. “No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn’t do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.”

— Margaret Atwood

Mother Quotes: “My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.” — Robin Williams

473. “My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.”

— Robin Williams

Mother Quotes: “I know a thousand things louder than a soldier’s gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.” — Andrea Gibson

474. “I know a thousand things louder than a soldier’s gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.”

— Andrea Gibson

Mother Quotes: “Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.” — George Washington Carver

475. “Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.”

— George Washington Carver

Mother Quotes: “I don’t want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.” — John Wayne

476. “I don’t want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.”

Mother Quotes: “I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.” — Charles Dickens

477. “I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.”

— Charles Dickens

Mother Quotes: “Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother’s reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.” — William Butler Yeats

478. “Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother’s reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.”

— William Butler Yeats

Mother Quotes: “Perhaps it takes courage to raise children...” — John Steinbeck

479. “Perhaps it takes courage to raise children...”

— John Steinbeck

Mother Quotes: “The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn’t mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.” — Billy Graham

480. “The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn’t mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.”

— Billy Graham

Mother Quotes: “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

481. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Mother Quotes: “I don’t really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I’d like to come back as my daughter’s dog.” — Leonard Cohen

482. “I don’t really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I’d like to come back as my daughter’s dog.”

— Leonard Cohen

Mother Quotes: “I spent most of my adult life as someone’s mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is – we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.” — Pat Benatar

483. “I spent most of my adult life as someone’s mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is – we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.”

— Pat Benatar

Mother Quotes: “You’ll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you’ve got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.” — D. H. Lawrence

484. “You’ll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you’ve got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.”

— D. H. Lawrence

Mother Quotes: “My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.” — Victor Borge

485. “My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.”

— Victor Borge

Mother Quotes: “When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.” — Nhat Hanh

486. “When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.”

Mother Quotes: “The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.” — Washington Irving

487. “The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.”

— Washington Irving

Mother Quotes: “On played the Mayor’s daughters in Horton Hears a Who: I had never done animation, so I thought it would be cool to try something different.” — Selena Gómez

488. “On played the Mayor’s daughters in Horton Hears a Who: I had never done animation, so I thought it would be cool to try something different.”

— Selena Gómez

Mother Quotes: “Daughter am I in my mother’s house, but mistress in my own.” — Rudyard Kipling

489. “Daughter am I in my mother’s house, but mistress in my own.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Mother Quotes: “I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.” — Robert M. Pirsig

490. “I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

Mother Quotes: “In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.” — N.K. Jemisin

491. “In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”

— N.K. Jemisin

Mother Quotes: “Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.” — John Cleese

492. “Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.”

— John Cleese

Mother Quotes: “A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

493. “A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mother Quotes: “On Valentine’s Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.” — Milton Berle

494. “On Valentine’s Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.”

— Milton Berle

Mother Quotes: “A year after I started college, I had no clue what I wanted to do. My mother said, forget everything else-if it were your birthday today, what would you do? I thought, I would play with makeup at the department store. So she said, do that!” — Bobbi Brown

495. “A year after I started college, I had no clue what I wanted to do. My mother said, forget everything else-if it were your birthday today, what would you do? I thought, I would play with makeup at the department store. So she said, do that!”

— Bobbi Brown

Mother Quotes: “I’m not a good mother at all.” — Steve Harvey

496. “I’m not a good mother at all.”

— Steve Harvey

Mother Quotes: “The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.” — Sydney J. Harris

497. “The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.”

— Sydney J. Harris

Mother Quotes: “We inherit a lot from our parents: mom’s eyes, dad’s chin, and the attitude of whichever parent isn’t punishing you at the moment. All of those things we have our mom’s to thank for.“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”” — Milton Berle

498. “We inherit a lot from our parents: mom’s eyes, dad’s chin, and the attitude of whichever parent isn’t punishing you at the moment. All of those things we have our mom’s to thank for.“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?””

— Milton Berle

Mother Quotes: “I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.” — Zora Neale Hurston

499. “I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

Mother Quotes: “Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother’s voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.” — Toni Morrison

500. “Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother’s voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.”

— Toni Morrison

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