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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Sep 28, 2025
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.
This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.
MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)
It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.
Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.
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 desert us; when trouble thickens 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.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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.
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.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.