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For a mother is the only person on earth
Who can divide her love among ten children
And each child still have all her love.
-Anon.
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"Heaven is at the feet of Mothers."
-Arabic Proverb
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"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers"
-Anon.
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Original Poems for Infant Minds "My Mother"
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My Mother.
-Anon.
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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
-Honore de Balzac
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"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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"Her children arise up, and call her blessed."
-Bible, Proverbs 31: 28
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Women known
The way to rear up children (to be just)
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes
And stringing pretty words that make no sense.
And kissing full sense into empty words.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Aurora Leigh"
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"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."
-Robert Browning
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"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."
-Cardinal Mermillod
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Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
-Jane Welsh Carlyle
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"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
-George Eliot
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It is true that you may occasionally overhear a mother say
"Children must have their naps,
It's mother who knows best."
When what she really means by that
Is that she needs a rest.
-Donna Evleth, "Inspiring Quotations" compiled by A M Wells, Jr, 1988
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A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, [quoted in 'O' Magazine, May 2003]
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"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
-Erich Fromm
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RICHER THAN GOLD
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
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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
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The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.
-Sydney J. Harris
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"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
-Theodore Hesburgh
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"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother's secret hope outlives them all."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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And yet of all the home remedies,
A good wife and mother is still the best.
-Kin Hubbard
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"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 troubles thicken 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
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M-O-T-H-E-R
"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
"R" means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER,"
A word that means the world to me.
-Howard Johnson
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"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
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not.
-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ch. 5, 1916
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"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
-Abraham Lincoln
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"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
-Abraham Lincoln
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GOD made a wonderful mother,
A mother who never grows old;
He made her smile of the sunshine,
And He molded her heart of pure gold;
In her eyes He placed bright shining stars,
In her cheeks, fair roses you see;
God made a wonderful mother,
And He gave that dear mother to me.
-Pat O'Reilly, A WONDERFUL MOTHER
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A Mother's love is something
that no on can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
and of sacrifice and pain,
It is endless and unselfish
and enduring come what may
For nothing can destroy it
or take that love away . . .
It is patient and forgiving
when all others are forsaking,
And it never fails or falters
even though the heart is breaking . . .
It believes beyond believing
when the world around condemns,
And it glows with all the beauty
of the rarest, brightest gems . . .
It is far beyond defining,
it defies all explanation,
And it still remains a secret
like the mysteries of creation . . .
A many splendoured miracle
man cannot understand
And another wondrous evidence
of God's tender guiding hand.
-Helen Steiner Rice, A MOTHER'S LOVE
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A mother's love is like an island
In life's ocean vast and wide,
A peaceful, quiet shelter
From the restless, rising tide.
A mother's love is like a fortress
And we seek protection there
When the waves of tribulation
Seem to drown us in despair.
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.
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.
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....
For a mother's love is fashioned
After God's enduring love,
It is endless and unfailing
Like the love of Him above.
For God knew in His great wisdom
That he couldn't be everywhere,
So he put His little Children
In a loving mother's care.
-Helen Steiner Rice, A Mother's Love
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"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
-William Makepeace Thackeray
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see: or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
-Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (p. 240)
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They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea;
He wields a mighty scepter
O’er lesser powers that be;
And the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
-William Ross Wallace
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"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 from her."
-George Washington
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
-Oscar Wilde
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Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
-Lin Yutang
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