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The
mother loves her children most divinely, not when she
surrounds them with comfort and anticipates their wants,
but when she resolutely holds them to the highest
standards and is content with nothing less than their
best. -Hamilton Wright
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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
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| Being a
mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing
with fears you didn't know existed.
-Linda Wooten |
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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 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
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| Motherhood
has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to
essentials. -Meryl Streep |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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motherhood is the most important of all the professions--requiring
more knowledge than any other department in human affairs--there
was no attention given to preparation for this
office. -Elizabeth Cady
Stanton |
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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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a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a
partner with God. No being has a position of such power and
influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations,
for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the
nation's citizens. -Spencer W.
Kimball |
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| 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 |
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mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down
remorselessly all that stands in its
path. -Agatha Christie |
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mother, more than any other, affects the moral and spiritual part
of the children's character. She is their constant companion and
teacher in formative years. The child is ever imitating and
assimilating the mother's nature. It is only in after life
that men gaze backward and behold how a mother's hand and heart of
love molded their young lives and shaped their
destiny. -E.W. Caswell |
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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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commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes
one a mother—which is as absurd as believing that having a piano
makes one a musician.
-Sydney J. Harris |
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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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mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning
unnecessary. -Dorothy Canfield
Fisher |
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not until you become a mother than your judgment slowly turns to
compassion and
understanding. -Erma
Bombeck |
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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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Everybody knows
that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and
stability. She is their earth. She is the one they can
count on for the things that matter most of all. She is
their food and their bed and the extra blanket when it grows cold
in the night; she is their warmth and their health and their
shelter; she is the one they want to be near when they cry.
She is the only person in the whole world in a whole lifetime who
can be these things to her children. There is no substitute
for her. Somehow even her clothes feel different to her
children's hands from anybody else's clothes. Only to touch
her skirt or her sleeve makes a troubled child feel
better. -Katharine
Butler Hathaway |
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noblest calling in the world is that of mother. True
motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all
professions. She who can paint a masterpiece or who can
write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits
and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family
of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will
be exerting an influence throughout the ages long after paintings
shall have faded, and books and statues shall have been destroyed,
deserves the highest honor that man can
give. -David O. McKay |
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mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious
that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the
functions of the mother.
-Ellen Key |
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affirm my profound belief that God's greatest creation is
womanhood. I also believe that there is no greater good in
all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in
the lives of her children is beyond
calculation. -James E.
Faust |
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So
when the great word 'Mother!' rang once more,
I saw at last its meaning and its place;
Not the blind passion of the brooding past,
But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last,
To love as she had never loved before --
To feed and guard and teach the human race.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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