893 private quotes tagged mom

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” — Meryl Streep

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“What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?” — Louisa May Alcott

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“I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom I know what she put into it.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

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“That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.” — Lauryn Hill

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“My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.” — Joel Madden

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“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.” — Loretta Lynn

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“I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.” — Sandra Bullock

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“I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.” — Sandra Bullock

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“I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.” — Adam Sandler

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“Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.” — Ruby Wax

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“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.” — Alice Walker

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“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

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“When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.” — Margaret Sanger

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“A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.” — Emma Bonino

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“I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.” — Carol Burnett

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“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.” — Erma Bombeck

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“I think I'm a really hands-on mom.” — Brooke Burke

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“Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.” — Erma Bombeck

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“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.” — Chris Brown

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“I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.” — Susie Bright

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“The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.” — Elayne Boosler

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“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.” — Alice Walker

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“Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.” — Stacie Orrico

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