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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one”
Jill Churchill quotes

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 quotes

Mothers of Teenagers Know Why Animals Eat Their Young.

A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.
Helen Rice quotes

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

Elizabeth Stone
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Aeschylus
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

Washington Irving
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.

Abraham Lincoln
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.

Henry Ward Beecher
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

George Washington
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.

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