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Quotes About Impact

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
~ William Cameron Townsend
Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
~ Carrie Fisher
Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
~ Jane Birkin
I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.
~ Jim Bridwell
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
~ Benjamin Rush
My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.
~ Lord Mountbatten
My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.
~ Brandy Norwood
Recognizing and preventing men's health problems is not just a man's issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men's health is truly a family issue.
~ Bill Richardson
Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
~ Jill Scott
Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.
~ Prince Harry
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.
~ Billy Graham
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
~ J. P. Donleavy
There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
Every success is the mother of countless others.
~ Henry Ford
My mother was the making of me.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.
~ Eve Arden
Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world
~ Plato
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.
~ Joanne Harris
If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.
~ Susan Sarandon
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.
~ Christine Baranski