"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." Oscar Wilde
"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." Oprah Winfrey
"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
Jewish Proverb
"I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother." George Washington
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
Abraham Lincoln
"If I was damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine." Rudyard Kipling
"Men are what their mothers made them." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation." Mark Twain
"No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones." Harry Truman
"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." Lin Yutang
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." Horore de Balzac
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." Theodore M. Hesburgh
"The mother is everything-she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly." Kahlil Gibran
"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." Irish Proverb
"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men-from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"What the child says, he has heard at home." African Proverb
"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not." James Joyce
"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all." Oliver Wendell Holmes
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