God
could not be everywhere, therefore he created mothers.
- Hebrew Proverb
As
is the mother, so is her daughter.
- Ezekiel 16:4
A
mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth
to age; and he is still but a child, however time may
have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can
yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion
or the gentle chidings of the best friend that God ever
gives us.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
Men
are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most
mothers are instinctive philosophers.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The fate
of the child is always the work of his mother.
- Napoleon
A mother's
love will draw up from the depths of the sea.
- Russian Proverb
We
never know the love of the parent until we become parents
ourselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A
mother's arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep
soundly in them.
- Victor Hugo
Making
a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to
decide forever to have your heart go walking around
outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone
What
do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through
their troubles?
- Louisa May Alcott
A
mother understands what a child does not say.
- Jewish Proverb
The
instruction received at the mother's knee, and the paternal
lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs
of the fireside, are never effaced entirely from the
soul.
- Lamennais
She
had listened to nothing, but mothers hear certain things
without listening.
- Victor Hugo
The
angels, whispering to one another
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of "Mother".
- Edgar Allan Poe
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One
good mother is worth a hundred school masters.
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A
mother's heart is always with her children.
- German Proverb
A
mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The
mother's heart is in the child's schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher
She
broke the bread into two fragments, and gave them to
the children, who ate with avidity. "She has kept none
for herself," grumbled the sergeant. "Because she is
not hungry," said a soldier. "Because she is a mother,"
said the sergeant.
- Victor Hugo
Is
not a young mother one of the sweetest sights which
life shows us? If she has been beautiful before, does
not her present pure joy give a character of refinement
and sacredness almost to her beauty, touch her sweet
cheeks with fairer blushes, and impart I know not what
serene brightness to her eyes?
- W. M. Thackery
Youth
fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
