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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.”

Source: I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings

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

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.”

Source: Robert Frost on writing

“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.”

Source: Robert Frost on writing

“Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.”

Thinking Way May Children Has Beens Seems Would Be Mother Father Family Boys Too Much Expecting Inadequate Mother Love Unloved

Author:Frank Pittman

“My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.”

Way Feels Children Mother Grief Family Husband Died Following Gods Will My Children My Husband Consolation Short Time Hindrance

Book:The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno

Source: The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno

“It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.”

Children Age Law Mother Father Family Wife Responsible Affair Ill Administration Maturity Reasonable Competence Being Responsible

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.”

Men Mother Family Grew Grew Up Forgiving God Forgives

Author:Brendan Behan

“Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland”

Men Happiness Mother Family Mines Duty Homeland

Author:Albert Camus

“My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.”

“Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.”

“Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?”

Way Humans Children Soul Done Mother Certain Felt Family Kissing Nervous Cheeks Solitary Strokes Human Soul Outrage Possessive

Author:John Cowper Powys

“[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.”