Mother`s Quotes
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In your time, politicians win points in the polls for proposing to punish unmarried teenaged mothers like me, not to mention our children.
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Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.
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We're all inclined to think we have a monopoly on each new sensation that comes to us, that it's our own particular little grievance. But every feeling and every thought you may have now has probably been felt and thought by mothers from the time the world began.
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Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
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Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.
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Were not only healthier but also less likely to report having been abused or neglected than a similar group whose mothers had not been visited. They also were more likely to have finished school, to have stayed out of jail, and to be working in well-paying jobs. Economists have calculated that every dollar invested in high-quality home visitation, day care, and preschool programs results in seven dollars of savings on welfare payments, health-care costs, substance-abuse treatment, and incarceration, plus higher tax revenues due to better-paying jobs.
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We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.
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Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.
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Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.
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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world.
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Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.
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Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market.
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I really doubt whether evolution ever works, how then come Mothers have only two hands.
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I feel that the connection with children and mothers is so strong in places where there are not so many 'things' to get in the way, no electronic distraction devices, no high-tech baby equipment, just a mother carrying her little one everywhere, sharing a family bed and having the help of all the other women around to raise the baby.
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Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.
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I wanted people to kind of take a peek to see that the pain, even though you may see them out at the Democratic National Convention or at Essence Festival or any of these other places, that the pain is still very real for these women from the "Mothers of the Movement".
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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.
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Working mothers become masters of time management.
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People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.
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Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.
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Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.
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My colleague Rachel Yehuda studied rates of PTSD in adult New Yorkers who had been assaulted or rapes. Those whose mothers were Holocaust survivors with PTSD had a significantly higher rate of developing serious psychological problems after these traumatic experiences. The most reasonable explanation is that their upbringing had left them with a vulnerable physiology, making it difficult for them to regain their equilibrium after being violated. Yehuda found a similar vulnerability in the children of pregnant women who were in the World Trade Center that fatal day in 2001. Similarly, the reactions of children to painful events are largely determined by how calm or stressed their parents are.
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A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
