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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. — Emily Dickinson
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 good mother is the greatest blessing ever bestowed on a family of children; and a godless, wicked, worldly mother is the greatest curse that ever blighted a home! — Sam Jones
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, “where mother is.” — Keith L. Brooks
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. — Irish Proverb
A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have. — Robert Brault
A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. — Robert Brault
A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart – a heart so large that everybody’s grief and everybody’s joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. — Mark Twain
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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
A mother understands what a child does not say. — Jewish proverb
A mother who is really a mother is never free. — Honore de Balzac
A mother’s got to be there to raise the children. That’s all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can’t do it all the time. — Eric Braeden
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. — Victor Hugo
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 love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life’s fast and futile quest. — Helen Steiner Rice
A mother’s love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there. — Helen Steiner Rice

A mother’s love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair. — Helen Steiner Rice
A mother’s love is like a tower, Rising far above the crowd, And her smile is like the sunshine, Breaking through a threatening cloud. — Helen Steiner Rice
A mother’s love is like an island, In life’s ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide. — Helen Steiner Rice
A mother’s love perceives no impossibilities. — Paddock
A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. — Peter De Vries
All that I am my mother made me. — John Quincy Adams
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. — Abraham Lincoln
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. — Germaine Greer
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. — Oscar Wilde
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. — Lisa Alther

Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother. — Gregory Nunn
As a mother, my job is to take care of what is possible and trust God with the impossible. — Ruth Bell Graham
As is the mother, so is her daughter. — Ezekiel 16:4
Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate. — Charlotte Gray
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love. — Mildred B. Vermont
Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed. — Linda Wooten
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. — Oprah Winfrey
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. — Sophocles
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother. — W. Somerset Maugham

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. — Jewish Proverb
Good mothers know that their relationship with each of their children is like a movable feast, constantly changing and evolving. — Sue Woodman
Great mothers build bridges instead of walls. — Reed Markham
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
He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men’s mothers. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who mistreats his father and chases away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach. — Proverbs 19:26
Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth. — Ephesians 6:2
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you. — Exodus 20:12
How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it. — Jules Michelet
I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely. — Renita Weems

I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine – she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. — Terri Guillemets
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? — Milton Berle
If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
I’m a mother with two small children, so I don’t take as much crap as I used to. — Pamela Anderson
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t. — Barbara Kingsolver
It takes a Mother’s Love to make a house a home, A place to be remembered, no matter where we roam. — Helen Steiner Rice
It takes a Mother’s Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright. — Helen Steiner Rice
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. — Phyllis Diller
It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. — From the television show The Golden Girls
Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside in every child’s library. — C. Lenox Remond

Just when a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother. — The Church Mouse
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons — Napoleon Bonaparte
Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old. — Proverbs 23:22
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. — Elizabeth Stone
Men are what their mothers made them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends – but only one mother in the whole world. — Kate Douglas Wiggin
Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. — T. DeWitt Talmage
Mother is a verb, not a noun. — Proverb
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. — Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul
Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own. — Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. — Meryl Streep
Mothers are all slightly insane. — J.D. Salinger
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow. — Reed Markham
Mother’s love grows by giving. — Charles Lamb
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. — Erich Fromm
My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. — Graycie Harmon
My mom is literally a part of me. You can’t say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. — Carrie Latet

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. — Mark Twain
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received. — George Washington
My mother’s love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it. — Marc Chagall
My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. — Buddy Hackett
My son, keep your father’s command, And do not forsake the law of your mother. — Proverbs 6:20
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he’ll end up hating you. — Jill Bennett
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love. — Edwin H. Chapin
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. — Florida Scott-Maxwell
No one ever outgrows the need for a mother’s love. — Janette Oke

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. — Harry Truman
No one is poor who had a godly mother. — Abraham Lincoln
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. — Beverly Jones
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. — Lin Yutang
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. — George Herbert
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands – bare hands – and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands – a kind of mad courage. — Robert Fulghum
Scotland, with her well-known reverence for motherhood, insists that an ounce of mother is worth more than a pound of clergy. — H. H. Birkins
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along. — Margaret Culkin Banning
Some 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
Spend at least one Mother’s Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him. — Erma Bombeck

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. — Barbara Ehrenreich
That best academy, a mother’s knee. — James Russell Lowell, poet, critic and diplomat
The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks. — Carrie Latet
The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. — Francis Thompson
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
The Joy of Motherhood: What a mother experiences when all her children are in bed. — Barbara Johnson
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
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. — Theodore Hesburgh
The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist. — Theodore Roosevelt
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. — Henry Ward Beecher

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 sweetest sounds to mortals given are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven. — William Goldsmith Brown
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. — Washington Irving
There is no place for a mother to go to resign. — The Church Mouse
There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. — Archibald Thompson
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. — Jill Churchill
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. — Chinese Proverb
There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness … The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life
with, and on that capital I have made my way. — Andrew Jackson

There was never a great man who had not a great mother — it is hardly an exaggeration. — Olive Schreiner
There’s a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there’s a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. — Roseanne Barr

There’s nothing like a mama-hug. — Terri Guillemets
This heart, my own dear mother, bends, with love’s true instinct, back to thee! — Thomas Moore
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. — Jane Welsh Carlyle
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. — Maya Angelou
What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles? — Louisa May Alcott
What tigress is there that does not purr over her young ones, and fawn upon them with tenderness? — St. Augustine
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. — James Joyce
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
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. — Amos Bronson Alcott
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. — Isadora Duncan

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. — John Lancaster Spalding
Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women’s opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering. — Elaine Heffner
Women who miscalculate are called mothers. — Abigail Van Buren
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
You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be – I had a mother who read to me. — Strickland Gillilan
Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly. — Sarah Malin
Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all. — Oliver Wendell Holmes