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
Mother is the
name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. --
William Makepeace Thackeray
"All that
I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." --
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"God could
not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." -- Jewish
proverb
"Of all
the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." --
Lin Yutang
The
mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense,
tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side,
yet this very love must help the child grow away from the
mother, and to become fully independent.--Erich Fromm
"The heart
of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will
always find forgiveness." -- Honore' de Balzac (1799-1850)
"My mother
was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my
mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral,
intellectual and physical education I received from her."
-- George Washington (1732-1799)
Every mother is
like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a
world she will not see.--Pope Paul VI
"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 (1907- )
But the
mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another
life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence
of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded
man.--George Eliot
"The
mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." -- Henry Ward
Beecher (1813-1887)
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
"Youth
fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's
secret hope outlives them all." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894)
"I
remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life." -- Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
"The most
important thing a father can do for his children is to love
their mother." --Author Unknown
God knows that
a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and
flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other
brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a
parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness.
It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when
children are small. It is important to the point of necessity
when they are adolescents.--Phyllis McGinley
