A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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.
Mothers are all slightly insane.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.
Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
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.
There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.
My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
She'll really tell me [what she thinks]. Like today I'm wearing brown suede pants, and she said, 'I don't like your pants.' But then she'll say, `You've got to wear these shoes.' Or 'That's so pretty, Mom. Wear that.' She's got a great eye.
Mothers are likely to have more bad days on the job than most other professionals, considering the hours: round-the-clock, seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year. . . . You go to work when you're sick, maybe even clinically depressed, because motherhood is perhaps the only unpaid position where failure to show up can result in arrest.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
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.
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