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Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile. — Mother Teresa

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. — Margaret Sanger

A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother. — Debasish Mridha

Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife. — Harriet Lerner

When you were a kid," he continued, his voice even and low, "Your mother taught you to observe people. She also taught you not to get attached. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I've never hit a woman in my life. Not even my own mother. — W.C. Fields

Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife? — Betty Smith

Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work. — Kirsty Gallacher

I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother. — Ginnifer Goodwin

Mother Earth is not a machine — Henry Red Cloud

My mother said to me, 'Why do you have to call yourself a dyke? Why can't you be a nice lesbian?' 'Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke.' — Lea DeLaria

There was never a great man who had not a great mother. — Olive Schreiner

Brothers - not when were born by one mother, brothers - when were born by one idea. Kain haven't a brother. Never. — Pavel Amnuel

Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest. — Sandy Duncan

Your mother and I had a child because we wanted to share our love with someone, not because we wanted a nurse to take care of us in our old age. — Nicole Peeler

I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law. — Stephane Hessel

It's not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can't just sing about anything. — Ben Harper

Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father. — Rush Limbaugh

If a brokenhearted mother could sing, I could not remain silent. — Beth Moore

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education. — Cat Cora

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee. — Elif Safak

The great problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her. — Gloria Furman

A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth! — Avijeet Das

If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead. — Gregory Of Nazianzus

The Church is a mother, not an entrepreneur. — Pope Francis

We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it. — Barbara Holland

Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have to play that thing. — Wynton Marsalis

To shape the soul of a young girl, all the nuns in the world are not equal to one mother. — Victor Hugo

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother. — Marie Antoinette

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living. — Mother Teresa

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. — Richard Bach

As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her. — Joyce Rachelle

Set a church clock wrong to fool the devil, my mother always told me. But in this case I suspect the devil is not fooled.

Not for a minute. — Joanne Harris

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him. — Mary Balogh

Mothering your man is not sexy for you or for him. If you want your man to "start being a man", start being his lover not his mother. — Miya Yamanouchi

Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders. — Gelett Burgess

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. — Joely Richardson

Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all. — Glenda Millard

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me. — Anu Garg

You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl. — David Bowie

Laborsaving devices do not necessarily save time, but they increase our expectactations of what mothers should accomplish — Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind. — Clarence Day

My mother always advised me not to trust a dead person. — Jayde Scott

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. — Henry Cantwell Wallace

Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go.. — Nick Santino

Why do you have to be such a nice guy?"
He flashed his dimples at her. "You've met my mother. Too scared not to be. — Shannon Stacey

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother. — Rasmenia Massoud

The problem is that your daughter has given her heart to a 15-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old boy does not yet qualify as a human being. — Bill Cosby

The expression is: a boy's best friend is his mother. It's not: a boy's best pimp is his mother. It is that way for a reason. — Maureen Johnson

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me. — Mother Teresa

Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer — Sunday Adelaja

Her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale.
Not a princess - princesses are just pretty. Eleanor's mother was beautiful. — Rainbow Rowell

A mother made a deal with her daughter, "You teach me Snapchat. I will not bother you on Whatsapp. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

Abortion is murder in the womb ... A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me. — Mother Teresa

The child of a Jewish mother was Jewish, and the child of a Jewish father by a non-Jewish woman was not Jewish unless and until formally converted. — Norman Solomon

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.' — Yoko Ono

Love is not a real-world limit: the mother of nine children can love each of them as much as the mother of an only child. — Dossie Easton

I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time. — Kristin Hannah

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life. — Jesse Jackson

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child. — Osamu Dazai

But given everything I do know, no matter how hard it is, how lonely or stressful, still, I would not want to leave this earth without being a mother. — Kelly Corrigan

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. — James E. Faust

I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features. — Audrey Hepburn

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. — Pope Paul VI

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

I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family. — Patrick Modiano

I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age. — Alice Hoffman

The point is not the honest relief of suffering but the promulgation of a cult based on death and suffering and subjection. Mother — Christopher Hitchens

Not anticipating I'd be on trial for my life, my mother hadn't bothered to pack a suit for me. She was, by nature, an optimist. — David Liss

It is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint. — Eugenia Price

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit. — Margaret Sanger

I've got my mother's acceptance of things and my dad's drive - not such a bad combination. — Kiki Dee

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. — Ryan White

The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly? — Mother Meera

Marriage? Please. I'll keep my freedom, thanks. Besides, I'm not a girl anyone brings home to their mother. — S.A. Huchton

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me. — Ginger Rogers

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same. — George Bernard Shaw

My mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby. — Gillian Flynn

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development. — David Gottesman

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved. — Mother Teresa

Success will not come to you like a baby who came to his mother — Isra

You better not brag, you're a hunky old hag, and that goes for your mother, too. — Steve Miller

Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law. — Jean-Louis Gassee

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. — Mother Teresa

I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family. — Alexis Stewart

You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort! — P.D. Eastman

A chair does not make a great leader. But a great leader can make any chair, his throne."

--Dark Mother — Jeffrey B. Thompson

Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle with words. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity. — Alexandre Dumas

If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right. — Mother Angelica

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. — James Joyce

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland — Albert Camus

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want. — Marina Abramovic

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. — Dogen

Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul. — Victor Hugo

And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual. — Carrie Fisher

She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished. — Marilynne Robinson

We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work. — Mother Teresa