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

“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”

“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.”

“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”

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

“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.”

“Most mothers kiss and scold together.”

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

“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.”

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

“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.”

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

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”

“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.”

“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”

“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.”

“A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

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

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”

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

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”

“A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”

“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.”

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”

“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.”

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”

“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.”

“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother”

“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.”

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”

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

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”