Mothers
- All mothers are physically handicapped. They have only two hands.--Anonymous (The Best of Bits and Pieces)
- The angels ... singing unto one another,
Can find among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of "mother"--Edgar Allen Poe (To My Mother)
- Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.--Lisa Alther
- But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.--Mitch Albom (For One More Day)
- The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. --Nancy Friday
- Did you ever meet a mother who's complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither.--Maureen Lipman (Thank You for Having Me)
- Don't aim to be an earthly saint, with eyes fixed on a star,
Just try to be the fellow that your Mother thinks you are.--Unknown
- Don't turn a small problem into a big problem--say yes to your mother.--Sally Berger
- Education is the mental railway, beginning at birth and running on to eternity. No hand can lay it in the right direction but the hand of a mother.--Mrs. H. O. Ward
- 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
- For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.--Shirley Jackson
- God could not be everywhere, so He made mothers.--Jewish Proverb
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.--Honoré de Balzac
- "I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. "Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?"--Jodi Picoult
- I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.--Mitch Albom
- I love old mothers--mothers with white hair
And kindly eyes, and lips grown softly sweet
With murmured blessings over sleeping babes.--Charles S. Ross
- I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.--Eleanor Roosevelt (Today's Health, Oct. 1966)
- I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.--Charles Dickens
- In the years since I began following the ways of my grandmothers I have come to value the teachings, stories, and daily examples of living which they shared with me. I pity the younger girls f the future who will miss out on meeting some of these fine old women.--Beverly Hungry Wolf
- It's easy to pick children whose mothers are good housekeepers; they are usually found in other yards.--Anonymous
- Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.--Lillian Hellman
- 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, but only one mother in the whole world.--Kate Douglas Wiggin (in The Treasure Chest ed. by Wallis)
- The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.--Hannah Whitall Smith
- A mother is never cocky or proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.--Mary Kay Blakeley ("The Pros and Cons of Motherhood" in Pulling Our Own Strings ed. by Blakeley and Kaufman)
- A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.--Dorothy Canfield (Her Son's Wife)
- 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
- Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.--Marion C. Garretty
- The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.--Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Mothers, across cultures, are at the emotional center of the home and, collectively, of the world. They are channels of loving energy, the primary nurturers of all human beings. Mothers are quintessential people.--Alexandra Stoddard
- A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.--Mrs. H. O. Ward
- 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 gives us.--Christian Nestell Bovee
- My mother gave me a bumblebee pin when I started work. She said: "Aerodynamically, bees shouldn't be able to fly. But they do. Remember that."--Jill E. Barad
- My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.--Mark Twain
- No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.--Florida Scott-Maxwell
- Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before.--Ellen Greene
- There is a point where you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends. It doesn't happen for everyone--but it did for Mom and me.--Jamie Lee Curtis
- There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.-—Jill Churchill
- What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?--Louisa May Alcott
- When I was growing up, Mother was the necessity of invention.--Michael Rawls
- You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.--Robert Frost (Writers at Work)
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