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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
- Erich Fromm


The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
- Washington Irving


Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr


All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
- Abraham Lincoln


My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
- Mark Twain


Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
- Aristotle


Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
- Moorish Proverb


A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
- Irish Proverb


Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
- Mildred B. Vermont


God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb


A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
- Unknown


A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
- Victor Hugo


A mother is someone who dreams great dreams for you, but then she lets you chase the dreams you have for yourself and loves you just the same.
- Unknown


One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
- George Herbert


Nothing else will ever make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, as motherhood.
- Elia Parsons


A mother holds her children's hands for a while, their hearts forever.
- Unknown


Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
- Sophocles


For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.
- Hannah W. Smith


The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.



- W. R. Wallace


Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William M. Thackeray


Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
- Henry Ward Beecher


A mother is the one who is still there when everyone else has deserted you.
- Unknown


Mothers Day is in honor of the best Mother who ever lived - the Mother of your heart.
- Anna Jarvis


A mother understands what a child does not say.
- Old Saying


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