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“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”
— Sigmund Freud
“You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.”
— Clare Boothe Luce
“My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. ”
— Phyllis Diller
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.”
— Coco Chanel
“Better a serpent than a stepmother!”
— Euripides
“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”
— Honore de Balzac
“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
— Honore de Balzac
“A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.”
— Honore de Balzac
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
— Honore de Balzac
“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
“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!”
— Honore de Balzac
“Children are the anchors of a mother's life. ”
— Sophocles
“For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.”
— Sophocles
“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
— Victor Hugo
“The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.”
— Victor Hugo
“Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.”
— Eminem
“Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.”
— Christina Aguilera
“I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. ”
— Jim Carrey
“My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time. ”
— Jim Carrey
“I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy. ”
— Jim Carrey
“My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted. ”
— Jim Carrey
“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." ”
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
“My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over. ”
— Clint Eastwood
“Men are what their mothers made them. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”
— Maya Angelou
“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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