quotations and passages on mothers

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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect.
Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep

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 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.

Washington Irving

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos
and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

The mother, more than any other, affects the moral and spiritual part
of the children's character. She is their constant companion and
teacher in formative years. The child is ever imitating and assimilating
the mother's nature. It is only in after life that men gaze backward
and behold how a mother's hand and heart of love molded their
young lives and shaped their destiny.

E.W. Caswell

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

Erich Fromm

I affirm my profound belief that God's greatest creation is womanhood. I also believe that there is no greater good in
all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother
in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

James E. Faust

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know
you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.

Linda Wooten

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

To be a mother is a woman's
greatest vocation in life. She is
a partner with God. No being
has a position of such power
and influence. She holds in
her hands the destiny of
nations, for to her comes the
responsibility and opportunity
of molding the nation's citizens.

Spencer W. Kimball

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

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes
down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Agatha Christie

A mother is she who can take the place of all others
but whose place no one else can take.

Cardinal Mermillod

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply
having children makes one a mother—which is as absurd as
believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Sydney J. Harris

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

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

It is not until you become a mother than your judgment
slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Erma Bombeck

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions--requiring
more knowledge than any other department in human affairs--there was
no attention given to preparation for this office.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded,
abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every
race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.

Charlotte Gray

Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion,
and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud
or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own
individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own.

Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons

You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be--
I had a mother who read to me.

Strickland Gillilan

The mother loves her children most divinely, not when she surrounds them
with comfort and anticipates their wants, but when she resolutely holds them
to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than their best.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

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Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust
and stability. She is their earth. She is the one they can count on for the
things that matter most of all. She is their food and their bed and the extra
blanket when it grows cold in the night; she is their warmth and their health
and their shelter; she is the one they want to be near when they cry. She is
the only person in the whole world in a whole lifetime who can be these
things to her children. There is no substitute for her. Somehow even her
clothes feel different to her children's hands from anybody else's clothes.
Only to touch her skirt or her sleeve makes a troubled child feel better.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

So when the great word 'Mother!' rang once more,
I saw at last its meaning and its place;
Not the blind passion of the brooding past,
But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last,
To love as she had never loved before --
To feed and guard and teach the human race.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The noblest calling in the world is that of mother. True motherhood is the
most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can
paint a masterpiece or who can write a book that will influence millions
deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears
successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose
immortal souls will be exerting an influence throughout the ages long
after paintings shall have faded, and books and statues shall have
been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give.

David O. McKay

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation,
so precious that society advances its highest well-being
when it protects the functions of the mother.

Ellen Key

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