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- "God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." - Jewish proverb
- "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." - Henry Ward Beecher
- "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." - Abraham Lincoln
- "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
- 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 - Nepoleon Bonaparte
- That best academy, a mother's knee - James Russell Lowell
- Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is
not - James Joyce
- "Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." - Lin Yutang
- A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for
pie - Tenneva Jordan
- "When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."
- Sophia Loren
- "Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children."
- Maxim Gorky
- A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable
accommodation - Mark Twain
- A mother understands what a child does not say - Jewish proverb
- Most mothers are instinctive philosophers - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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