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language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of
a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger
where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance
of its quenchless fidelity like a star. ~Edwin Hubbell Chapin
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for
five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva
Jordan
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries
The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed
before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is
something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh
If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other,
the whole world would kick the beam. ~Lord Langdale
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln
Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it
is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl
S. Buck
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ~Robert Brault
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~Author Unknown
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce
Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are
discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely
to do anything about that. ~Golda Meir
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men -
from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their
bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~Oscar WildeShe never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A
mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her
child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle
Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel
that we belong to the better sort. ~John Lancaster Spalding
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep
The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The formative period for building character for eternity is in the
nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more
potent than that of kings or priests. ~Author Unknown
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C.
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ~Emily Dickinson
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden,
fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends
who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens
around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts
and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to
return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. ~Lisa Alther
Don't ever tell the mother of a newborn that her baby's smile is just gas. ~Jill Woodhull
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. ~Beverly Jones
That best academy, a mother's knee. ~James Russell Lowell
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~Victor Hugo
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get
bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it
don't mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
. ~Robert BraultThere is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an
instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own,
Mommies are just big little girls. ~Author Unknown
A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go. ~Author Unknown
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~George Cooper
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but
reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~Honoré de
Balzac
A mother's heart is a patchwork of love. ~Author Unknown
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become
inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their
husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ~Washington Irving
A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have. ~Robert Brault,
My mother is a poem
I'll never be able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my mother.
~Sharon Doubiago
You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool mom. ~Author Unknown
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. ~Isadora Duncan
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert
There's nothing like a mama-hug. ~Terri Guillemets
Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
~Anne Taylor
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~Erich Fromm
What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights. ~Robert Brault,
Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
~Ann Taylor
Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt Talmage
Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and
dealing with fears you didn't know existed. ~Linda Wooten
The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. ~D.W. Winnicott,
The mother of boys work son-up to son-down. ~Author Unknown
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family
confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters'
role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all
their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda
Mother's love grows by giving. ~Charles Lamb
I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still
The deepest impressed on my heart.
~Eliza CookThe
mother's heart is the child's school-room. ~Henry Ward Beecher
