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"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

— George Washingtonmom

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

— Jessica Langemom

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

— Mark Twainmom

"Men are what their mothers made them."

— Ralph Waldo Emersonmom

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

— Pablo Picassomom

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."

— Aristotlemom

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"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

-George Washington

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

-Jessica Lange

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

-Mark Twain

"Men are what their mothers made them."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

-Pablo Picasso

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."

-Aristotle

"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

"Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children."

-Billy Graham

"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

"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."

-Erma Bombeck

"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

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

-E. M. Forster

"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

"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."

-Alice Walker

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."

-Ambrose Bierce

"Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother."

-Erma Bombeck

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled."

-Carly Fiorina

"My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully."

-Chris Brown

"I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage."

-Elizabeth Taylor

"Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied."

-Ruby Wax

"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

"I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom."

-Susie Bright

"When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps."

-Dick Gregory

"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

"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."

-Alice Walker

"Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up."

-Camille Paglia

"My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque."

-Denzel Washington

"Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand."

-Helen Hunt Jackson

"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."

-Arianna Huffington

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