To a child's
ear, "mother" is magic in any language.
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Arlene Benedict, For Mother with Love
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Life began with
waking up and loving my mother's face
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George Eliot, English novelist
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Mother is the
name of God in the lips and hearts of children.
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William Makepeace Thackeray, English
novelist
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A mother is she
who can take the place of all others.
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Cardinal Mermillod
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Mother is the
bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries.
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unknown
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For mother's
sake the child was dear, and dearer was the
mother for the child.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet
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You never get
over being a child, 'long as you have a mother to
go to.
- - Sarah
Orne Jewett
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A mother loves
her children even when they least deserve to be
loved.
- - Kate
Samperi, "Mothers"
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Mother is the
one we count on for the things that matter most
of all.
- -
Katherine Butler Hathaway, "The
Journals and Letters of the Little
Locksmith"
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Who ran to help
me when I fell,
Or kissed the place to make it well?
....My mother.
- - Ann
Taylor
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A mother
understands what a child does not say.
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Jewish proverb
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Mother's love
is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be
deserved.
- - Erich
Fromm, psychologist
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All I am I owe
to my mother.
- -
George Washington, first U.S. president
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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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Children aren't
happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what
parents were created for.
- - Ogden
Nash
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- Mother
is the home we come from.
She is nature, soil, ocean.
- - Erich
Fromm, psychologist
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A mother is not
a person to lean on but a person to make leaning
unnecessary.
- -
Dorothy C. Fisher (1879-1958)
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She brings the
sunshine into the house; it is now a pleasure to
be there.
- - Cecil
Beaton, British fashion photographer
(1904-80)
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Mother love is
the fuel that enables a normal human being to do
the impossible.
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Unknown
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One of the
oldest human needs is having someone to wonder
where you are when you don't come home at night.
- -
Margaret Mead
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A Freudian slip
is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
- -Unknown
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My mother loved
children - she would have given anything if I had
been one.
- -
Groucho Marx
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The hand that
rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the
world.
- - W.R.
Wallace
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God could not
be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
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Jewish Proverb
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Mothers are the
necessity of invention.
- -
Calvin
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Her voice was
ever soft,
Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
- -
William Shakespeare, King Lear
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The mother's
heart is the child's schoolroom.
- - Henry
Ward Beecher
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Of all the
rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
- - Lin
Yutang
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