Quotes about MOTHERS
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- Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate. – Charlotte Gray
- A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. – George Eliot
- Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons. – Napoleon Bonaparte
- Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. – Elizabeth Stone
- Famous Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. – Aristotle
- 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 troubles thicken 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. – Washington Irving
- All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. – Abraham Lincoln
- The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. – Henry Ward Beecher
- 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. – George Washington
- That best academy, a mother’s knee. – James Russell Lowell
- “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.” – Exodus 20:12
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