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Friday 15 June 2012

MOTHER'S LOVE: SELECTED QUOTES


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A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever || Unknown

Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries || Unknown

For mother's sake the child was dear,
and dearer was the mother for the child.
|| Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it || Marc Chagall

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother || Sarah Josepha Hale

The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws || Barbara Kingsolver

Mothers are instinctive philosophers || Harriet Beecher Stowe

To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language || Arlene Benedict

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face || George Eliot

Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children || William Makepeace Thackeray

A mother is she who can take the place of all others || Cardinal Mermillod  

She's my teacher, adviser, and greatest inspiration || Whitney Houston

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters || George Herbert

A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved || Kate Samperi

There is no substitute for mother || Unknown

Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all || Katherine Butler Hathaway

When it comes to love, Mom's the word.
For all the ways you've helped me grow
I want to say I love you so.
|| Renaissance® Greeting Cards

Who ran to help me when I fell,
Or kissed the place to make it well?
....My mother.
|| Ann Taylor

A mother understands what a child does not say || Jewish Proverb

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

All I am I owe to my mother || George Washington

A man loves his sweetheart the most,
his wife the best,
but his mother the longest.
|| Irish Proverb

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
|| Ogden Nash

Mother is the home we come from.
She is nature, soil, ocean.
|| Erich Fromm

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary || Dorothy C. Fisher

She brings the sunshine into the house; it is now a pleasure to be there || Cecil Beaton

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible || Unknown

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night || Margaret Mead

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world || W.R. Wallace

God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers || Jewish Proverb

Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
|| William Shakespeare

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom || Henry Ward Beecher

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