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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried
jobs... since the payment is pure love.
Mildred B. Vermont
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
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
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel
Mother.
Abraham Lincoln
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being
to do the impossible.
Marion C. Garretty
If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother
in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
Henry Bickersteth
Mother that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts
and worries.
T. DeWitt Talmage
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
There was never a great man who had not a great mother
-it is hardly an exaggeration.
Olive Schreiner
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before
my soul would rest. I wanted to belong to belong to my mother. And in return I
wanted my mother to belong to me.
Gloria Vanderbilt
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the
life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence
of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
George Eliot
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried
jobs... since the payment is pure love.
Mildred B. Vermont
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
Nobody knows of the work it makes to keep the home
together. Nobody knows of the steps it takes, nobody knows but mother.
Anonymous
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
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
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried
jobs... since the payment is pure love.
Mildred B. Vermont
The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
William Goldsmith Brown
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go
where a prayer has not already been.
Robert Brault
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children
obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries
Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while,
but their hearts forever.
Anonymous
All mothers are working mothers.
Anonymous
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
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being
to do the impossible.
Marion C. Garretty
Mother that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts
and worries.
T. DeWitt Talmage
A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made
mothers.
Jewish Proverb
A mother understands what a child does not say.
Anonymous
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always
followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln
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
Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite
of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual
nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.
John Erskine
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
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best,
but his mother the longest.
Irish Proverb
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up
children; now I have six children, and no theories.
John Wilmot
You don't really understand human nature unless you know
why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and
why his parents will always wave back.
William D. Tammeus
Now that... my kids are grown, I understand how much work
and love it takes to raise and to keep a family together. The example of your
strength, devotion, and patience is now rippling through the generations. Thank
you!
Forest Houtenschil
Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
Helen Hunt Jackson
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would
kill you quicker if they didn't.
Barbara Kingsolver
Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
Ann Taylor
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
On Mother's Day I have written a poem for you. In the
interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my
deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines: You're my
mother, I would have no other!
Forest Houtenschil
Children are a great comfort in your old age and they
help you reach it faster, too.
Lionel Kauffman
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of
little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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
This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!
Thomas Moore
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is
parents.
John J. Plomp
Before a day was over,
Home comes the rover,
For mother's kiss sweeter this
Than any other thing!
William Allingham
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's
rich.
Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling
safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but
pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that
a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a
breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Craik
Where we love is home home that our feet may leave, but
not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes
out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We
should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are
the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
If I had a single flower for every time I think about
you, I could walk forever in my garden.
Attributed to Claudia Ghandi
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is
feeling chilly.
Ambrose Bierce
All women become like their mothers. That is their
tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because
they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle
A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is
never done.
Anonymous
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
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if
they didn't have anything to do with it.
Haim Ginott
Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it
embarrasses your children.
Marilyn Penland
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory
banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every
mother has it.
Chinese Proverb
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin
unprotected.
Red Buttons
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should
have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Lawrence Housman
Setting a good example for your children takes all the
fun out of middle age.
William Feather
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you
might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease
or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who
does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider
yourself an unqualified success.
Fran Lebowitz
The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
William Goldsmith Brown
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
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished
child even in the degraded man
George Eliot
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons
Nepoleon Bonaparte
That best academy, a mother's knee
James Russell Lowell
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a
world a mother's love is not
James Joyce
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a
mother.
Lin Yutang
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
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
Only mothers can think of the future-because they give
birth to it in their children.
Maxim Gorky
