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“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

“I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.”

“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”

“As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”

“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.”

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”

“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

“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.”

“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.”