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Quotes About Life

What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?
~ Saint Francis de Sales
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
~ Anne Lamott
Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
~ Mother Teresa
Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.
~ Alveda King
I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.
~ Shirley Temple
When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.
~ Shinya Yamanaka
As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.
~ Julian of Norwich
The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
~ Hermann Hesse
I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.
~ Helen Hunt
I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.
~ Loni Anderson
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
~ Mother Teresa
The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.
~ John Calvin
The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
~ Jessica Lange
My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.
~ Kathy Bates
Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
~ Khalil Gibran
My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'
~ Betty White
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
~ Sigmund Freud
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
~ St. Jerome
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
~ Rachel Carson
We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.
~ Meister Eckhart
Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.
~ Kim Basinger
a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.
~ Barbara Holland