Saturday, 30 March 2013

Mother - Quotes

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. - Emily Dickinson

A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime. - John Stevenson

A mother holds her children’s hands for a while…their hearts forever. - Unknown

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. - Tenneva Jordan

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 trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. - Washington Irving

A mother understands what a child does not say. - Jewish proverb

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. - Victor Hugo

A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. - Honore de Balzac

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no awe, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. - Agatha Christie

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring. - Hosea Ballou

And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers. - Allen Toussaint

But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run. - Barbara Kingsolver

But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heart-breaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin. - Mitch Albom

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows. - Joanne Harris

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 realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. - Mitch Albom

In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe. - N.K. Jemisin

In the presence of a mother, we feel that our childhood has not all departed. - Eliza Cook

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind. - Kahlil Gibran

Mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. - Marion C. Garretty

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. - Erich Fromm

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. - Meryl Streep

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. - Gail Tsukiyama

No man is poor who has a Godly mother. - Abraham Lincoln

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

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. - Pearl S. Buck

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. - Barbara Kingsolver

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms. - Jodi Picoult

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. - Honora de Balzac

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. - Rajneesh

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Theodore Hesburgh

The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. - Jill Churchill

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don’t know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress. - Chuck Palahniuk

You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household. - Lyman Abbott

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