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Mothers

  • God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers. — Jewish Proverb
  • Maternal love: a miraclulous substance which God multiplies as He divides it. — Victor Hugo
  • No man is poor who has a Godly mother. — Abraham Lincoln
  • Who is best taught? He who has first learned from his mother. — The Talmud
  • Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. — William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Her children arise up, and call her blessed. — Proverbs 31:28
  • I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine — she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. — Adabella Radici
  • There's nothing like a mama-hug. — Adabella Radici
  • The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. —Washington Irving
  • I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely. —Renita Weems
  • Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. —Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks. — Carrie Latet
  • A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. — Cardinal Mermillod
  • "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." — Honoré de Balzac
  • My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. — Mark Twain
  • The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories. — Sydney J. Harris
  • The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. — Jean Kerr

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