“Don’t
poets know it, Better than others? God can’t be always everywhere:
and, so, Invented Mothers"
-Sir Edwin Arnold
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”Mothers
hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”
-Anonymous
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“All
that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
- Abraham Lincoln |
”The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
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”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
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-George Washington
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”No gift to
your mother can ever equal her gift to you–life.”
-Anonymous
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”Hundreds of
dewdrops to greet the dawn; Hundreds of lambs in the purple clover; Hundreds
of butterflies on the lawn; But only one mother the wide world over.”
- George Cooper
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”Mother–that
was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”
-T. DeWitt Talmage
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”I remember
my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me
all my life.”
-Abraham Lincoln
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“Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.”
- Jill Bennett |
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom
of which you will always find forgiveness”.
-Honore de
Balzac
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”And remember
that behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry.”
-Anonymous
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“Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse
consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.”
- W. Somerset Maugham |
”I remember
my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me
all my life.”
- Abraham Lincoln
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”The heart
of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find
forgiveness.”
-Honoré de Balzac
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”A man loves
his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”
- Irish Proverb
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“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” - Stevie Wonder |
”A mom’s hug
lasts long after she lets go.”
- Anonymous
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“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
-Robert
Frost
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”Who ran to
help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the
place to make it well? My mother.”
-Ann Taylor
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“My
mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you
are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became
Picasso.”
- Pablo Picasso |
”Mother is
the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
-William Makepeace Thackeray
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“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
- Abraham Lincoln |
”A man’s work
is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.”
-Anonymous
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“I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the
lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother
there?”
- Spencer W. Kimball, |
”The sweetest
sounds to mortals given, Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.”
-William Goldsmith Brown
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“She is
the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the
friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
-Oprah Winfrey |
"A mother’s
love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to
spring!”
-Marguerite Gardiner
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“Necessity...
the mother of invention.”
- Plato |
”Most
mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“I like it when my
mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.”
-Adriana Trigiani, |
”My mom is a
never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may
sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.”
-Graycie Harmon
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“A man who has been the indisputable
favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror”.
-Sigmund Freud
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“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
-Alice
Walkel
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“There's
something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and
water after she's only measured water in it.”
-Erma
Bombeck
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“Diligence
is the mother of good fortune.”
-Benjamin Disraeli |
“What a
mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.”
- Henry Ward Beecher |
“There
is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.”
- Billy Sunday |
“The
mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul
of our own civilization.”
- Frank
Lloyd Wright
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