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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.”

Mother Family Creativity Creative Flower Letters Parenting Motherhood Seeds Grandmother Sparks Mothering Great Mother Mother And Grandmother Creative Spark

Book:Everyday Use

Source: Everyday Use

“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”

Mother Turns Understanding Compassion Family Mom Judgment Being A Mom Mothering Great Mother Mothers Day Inspirational Judgment Of Others Joys Of Motherhood Becoming A Mother Understanding And Compassion Becoming A Mom

Book:Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

Source: Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

“My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.”

Firsts Mother Family Mom Bed Parenting Household Hitting Housework Chores Clean House Bunk Household Chores House Cleaning Spring Cleaning Bunk Beds

Book:I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

Source: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

“No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.”

Children Mother Literature Sleep Known Family Bed Sick Died Spread Blanket Wrinkles Crooked Remakes Sleeping In Unmade Beds

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.”

Play Mother Belief Family Highest Absolutes Cards

Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.”

Kind Reason Hands Mother Lost Family Saws Picks Mad Fishes Bags Wet Garbage Thirteen Teaspoons

Author:Robert Fulghum

“My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.”

Knows Used Mother Turns Social Family Instinct Constructs

Book:Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.”

Knows Way Children Stills Book Mother Father Family Know How Mystery Advice Thousand Seven Experts Spite Grandmother Right Way Your Grandmother

Author:Bill Cosby

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”

Source: Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again

“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.”

“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”

“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 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.”

Heart Kind Stills Mother Fall Causes Family Darkness Trouble Mom Return Adversity Clouds Prosperity Heavy My Mom Motherhood Trials Desert Hard Times Endeavor Mum Mothers Day Tough Times Best Friend Truest Being A Mom Your Mom Being A Mother Mothering Mother Daughter Happy Mothers Day Mother Love Mother's Love Best Mother Mother And Son Your Mum Great Mother Mom And Daughter Inspirational Mothers Mother Proverbs Mothers Day Inspirational Inspirational Motherhood True Best Friend Love For My Mother Good Happy Mothers Day Just A Mom Inspiring Motherhood Mothers Day Messages Short Mothers Day Best Mom Great Mom Losing Friends Mother Flower Mom Knows Best Mother Son Inspirational Mom Greatest Mom Joys Of Motherhood Happy Mothers Day Greetings Greatest Mothers Day Mother Son Relationship Motherhood And Love Mothers Day Love Sentimental Mother Mother Son Inspirational Special Mother Wonderful Mother Touching Mother Beautiful Mother And Daughter Beloved Mother

Author:Washington Irving

“Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.”

Heart Children Mother Family Bounds Inspirational Mothers Mother Proverbs Inspirational Motherhood

Author:Charlotte Gray

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.”

Men Made Mother Stuff Party Family Generations Crisis Tea Hated Great Men Shops Indispensable Tea Party

Book:Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre

Source: Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre

“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”

Want Helping Earth Mother Family Mom Routine Dishes Happy Mothers Day Mother's Love Best Mother Inspirational Mothers Mothers Day Inspirational Inspirational Motherhood Love For My Mother Mom Knows Best

Book:All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.”

“To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.”

Source: Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

Author:Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.”

Source: Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin - Anwar El-Sadat Personal Correspondence

“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”

“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”

Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

“Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.”

“That best academy, a mother's knee.”

“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.”

“A 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.”

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Author:Agatha Christie

“Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.”

Feels Mother Family Mom Mom And Daughter

Book:Things of the Mind

Source: Things of the Mind

“If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.”

Ifs Mother Prayer Family Mom Daughter Motherhood Happy Mothers Day Mother Love Mother's Love Best Mother Mothers Day Messages Short Mothers Day Happy Mothers Day Text Love Your Mother Motherhood And Love

Author:Robert Breault

“The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.”

Children Mother Family Mom Pure Motherhood Ties Links Being A Mom Mother And Child Immaculate Mother Proverbs Mother Child Greatest Mom

Author:Washington Irving

“Mother's love grows by giving.”

Giving Mother Grows Family Mom Motherhood Being A Mom Family Love Mother's Love Love Grows

Book:The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb

Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb

“The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.”

Mother Forget Family Mom Safe Mothers Day Being A Mom Good Mother

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.”

“A boy's best friend is his mother.”

“A mother's love liberates.”

Mother Family Mom Mother's Love

Author:Maya Angelou

“I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.”

Feels Made Whole Mother Purpose Family Mom My Mom Motherhood Inspirational Motherhood

Author:Natasha Gregson Wagner

“The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.”

Faces Mother Family Mom Mirrors My Mom Being A Mom Precursor Short Mothers Day

Book:Playing and Reality

Source: Playing and Reality

“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.”

People Knows Love Reason Mother Family Mom Exquisite Family Love Single Mom Single Mother Love My Family Lovely Family Being A Single Mom Being A Good Mother

Author:Maggie Gallagher

“Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.”

Children Humor Funny Mother Family Sun Wife Witty Sand Sharks Honolulu

Author:Ken Dodd

“A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.”

Two Mother Family Mom Forgiving Faults

Author:Robert Breault

“My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.”

Trying Children Mother Heaven Family Grew Grew Up My Children Old Woman Children Love Funny Family

Author:Bill Cosby

“Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.”

“Women who miscalculate are called mothers.”

Mother Family Humorous Motherhood Mothering Mother Proverbs

Author:Abigail Van Buren

“Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.”

Mother Girl Family Motherhood Knees Insult Teenage Hearted Frogs Teenage Girl Faint Hearted Skinned Knees

Author:Danielle Steel

“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”

Heart Light Mother Father Family Heavenly Veils Mothers Day Heavenly Father Greatest Love Mother Love Good Happy Mothers Day Happy Mothers Day Greetings Mothers Day Love Silent Heart Burning Heart Dear Mother

Book:Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes

Source: Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes

“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”

“There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.”

Needs Children Mother Family Instinct

Author:Robert Breault

“How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.”

World Children Care Mother Family Ready Take Care

Author:Jules Michelet

“A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.”

People Book Mother Family Mom Reviews Glowing Book Review

Author:Robert Breault

“Simply having children does not make mothers.”

Children Doe Mother Parent Family Abuse Having Children Children And Parents Funny Parenting Funny Parent Parenthood Funny

Author:John G. Shedd

“There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.”

Children Mother Father Family Tears Our Children Your Children Mother And Father Kindergarten Fidgeting

Author:Shirley Knight

“Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.”

Home Mother Father Felt Family Wonderful Streets Tears Safe Parenting Warm Motherhood Family Life Bleak Mother And Father Playgrounds Great Relationship

Author:Robert Cormier

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