SAY WHAT????

 

The Top 60 Most said "Mom Quotes"

1. Why? Because I SAID so, that's why!
2. You'll understand when you're older.
3. You'd forget your head if it wasn't attached to your shoulders!
4. You made your bed, now lie in it.
5. You don't always get what you want.
6. You can't judge a book by its cover.
7. You can't find it? Well, if you'd put things where they belonged, you wouldn't have this problem
8. When you have your own house then you can make the rules!
9.  When you have kids of your own you'll understand
10. When I was your age...
11. What part of NO don't you understand?
12. As long as you live under my roof, you'll do as I say.
13. Call me when you get there, just so I know you're okay.
14. Close the door! You weren't born in a barn!
15. Did you brush your teeth,clean your room, and comb your hair? 
16. Did you wash your hands and flush ?  
17. Do I look like a maid? 
18. Do you think I'm made of money?
19. What if everyone jumped off a cliff? Would you do it, too?
20. What did I say the FIRST time?
21. This hurts me more than it hurts you
22. Say that again and I'll wash your mouth out with soap.
23. Put that down! You don't know where it's been!
24. Pick up your feet.
25. Pick that up before somebody trips on it and breaks their neck!
26. Now, say you're sorry...and MEAN it!
27. Money does NOT grow on trees.
28. Look at this room! It looks like a pigsty!
29. Look at me when I'm talking to you.
30.   Life isn't always fair.
31. I've had it up to here with you
32. It's not that I don't trust you, it's that I don't trust everyone else.
33. I'm not running a taxi service.
34. I'm not going to ask you again.
35.  I'm not always going to be around to do these things for you.
36. I'm going to give you until the count of three... 1.. 2.. 2 and a half... 2 and three quarters
37. I'm doing this for your own good.
38. I'll treat you like an adult when you start acting like one.
39. If you're too sick to go to school, you're too sick to play outside.
40. If you don't stop crying, I am going to give you something to cry about!
41. If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
42. If God had wanted you to have holes in your ears (bellybutton, nose, etc.) He would have put them there
43. I would have never talked to MY mother like that!
44. I just want what's best for you.
45. I don't have to explain myself. I said no.
46. I don't care who started it, I said stop it!
47. I didn't ask who put it there, I said "Pick it up!"
48. I brought you into this world, and I can take you right back out.
49. How do you know you don't like it if you haven't tasted it?
50. How can you have nothing to wear? Your closet is FULL of clothes
51.  Go to your room and think about what you did!
52. Go ask your father.
53. Enough is enough!
54. Don't walk away when I'm talking to you!
55. Don't use that tone with me
56. Don't talk with your mouth full!
57. Don't sit too close to the television, it'll ruin your eyes.
58. Don't make me come in there!
59.  Don't cross your eyes or they're going to get stuck that way.
60. Don't go out with a wet head, you'll catch cold.

 I know that just about every person has heard their mom say at least one of these phrases and I know that most people hated hearing them while they were growing up. Mom's may say a lot but it's because they have learned a lot over the years. Everything they say is said out of love.

                   "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." -- Henry Ward Beecher

There Are Stars Among Us

(famous mother's throughout history)

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Mother Theresa 

http://www.ewtn.com/motherteresa

 As one of the most infamous mothers throughout history, Mother Theresa never actually gave birth to her own children. However, her humanitarian work and care of the poor, sick and homeless, have made her one of the most influential mothers and humanitarians to ever grace the earth.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton 

gutenberg.org

Most notably the most important figure in the women's suffrage movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton played a large role in giving women the many civil liberties they have today. She perhaps did more for women's rights than any other mother and activist at this time.

 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 

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One of the most well-known public figures and fashion icons of all time, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, or "Jackie O" was the wife of the late president John F. Kennedy. Throughout her life, she experienced many trials and tribulations, but as a mother, she endured for her children. For her determination and will power, Jackie O will be remembered as an icon for all mothers; one of the most beloved and popular figures of the 20th century.

 Julia Ward Howe 

http://www.nndb.com/people/070/000031974

Poet and Activist Julia Ward Howe planted the first seeds to making Mother’s Day a national holiday in the United States. She was the first to propose a “Mother's Day”, after introducing her “Mother's Day Proclamation” in 1870. Based on her experiences as a wife and mother throughout her tyrannical marriage and the violence she witnessed while living through the Civil War, the proclamation declared that women should have more social responsibility beyond the domestic duties of the household.

Rosa Parks 

biographyonline.net

The "Mother of Montgomery" who launched the civil rights movement. She changed the world with just one choice. She is an inspiration to many people throughout history.

at we can look up to and admire but there 

REAL EVERYDAY MOTHER'S

(they are next door, down the street, and in our hometowns)

• Janeen is a single mom in her 40's. She's a city girl who is adjusting to her new life in a small town on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. She is frequently overwhelmed, often delighted, and always caffeinated. She runs one of the many mommy blogs available called :  Diaryofasinglemom.clubmom.com

• Carla is  a mom and a wife raising a family in New England suburbia. Before that I was a Cubanita city girl with big dreams. She runs one of the many available mommy blogs called:

Mamaheartsbaby.com

• Kristi is a young mother who is not only trying to be a good mother to her child by providing financially but she is trying to be a good Christian role model as well. She is not only a mother 24-7 but also works 5 days a week.

There are many things that can be learned from a mother. Not only are there famous mother's that we can look up to and admire but there are mother's in our own hometowns and neighborhoods that are living an admirable life of motherhood.