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| Allt det jag är, eller hoppas att vara, är jag skyldig min ängelsmoder. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Jag vill att mina barn ska få alla de saker jag inte hade råd med. Sen ska jag flytta in hos dem. | Phyllis Diller (1917-) |
| I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from "Thank God it's Friday" to "Thank God it's Monday." If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent. | Ann Diehl |
| The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. | Calvin Trillin (1935-) |
| Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told. | Chastity Bono (1969-) |
| A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary | Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) |
| And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me. | Gloria Vanderbilt (1924-) |
| The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best. | Hamilton Wright Mabie |
| A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking | Helen Rice |
| There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one | Jill Churchill |
| Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. | Lisa Alther |
| 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 (1880-1960) |
| A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium | Mary Kay Blakely |
| Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children. | Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) |
| My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to sister | Pat Conroy (1945-) |
| However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent | Pope Pius XI (1857-1939) |
| She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood. | Rajiv Gandhi (1944-1991) |
| Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb? | Trey Parker (1961-) |
| A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time. | Barbara Bush (1925-) |
| When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that. | Diane Arbus (1923-1971) |
| Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully. | Fay Weldon (1931-) |
| Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. | Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) |
| I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist. | Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) |
| The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, "Mama I want to be a painter." | Marc Chagall (1887-1985) |
| My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. | Nora Ephron (1941-) |
| Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. | Pope Paul VI (1897-1978) |
| When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. | Sophia Loren (1934-) |
| There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. | Chinese Proverbs |
| Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. | Mildred B. Vermont |
| A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking | Helen Rice |
| The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. | Erich Fromm (1900-1980) |
| A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary | Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) |
| The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. | Calvin Trillin (1935-) |
| When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. | Sophia Loren (1934-) |
| She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood. | Rajiv Gandhi (1944-1991) |
| A mother understands what a child does not say. | Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort (1741-1794) |
| Mothers of Teenagers Know Why Animals Eat Their Young | Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-) |
| ...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. | Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-) |
| My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys"; | Harmon Killebrew (1936-) |
| The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent | Pope Pius XI (1857-1939) |
| Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. | Pope Paul VI (1897-1978) |
| The remembrance of a beloved mother becomes a shadow to all our actions; it precedes or follows them | Peter de Vries (1910-1993) |
| A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after | Peter de Vries (1910-1993) |
| Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond. | Adam Brody (1979-) |
| But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of one day, she bore it with a good courage, because of the hope that she had in the Lord. | Bible |
| Mothers are the necessity of invention. | Bill Watterson (1958-) |
| But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. | Helen Rowland (1876-1950) |
| The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| A mother who is really a mother is never free. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| Mothers are all slightly insane. | J. D. Salinger (1919-) |
| Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day. | Jay Leno (1950-) |
| Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect | Roseanne Barr (1952-) |
| An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest | Spanish Proverb |