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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Sep 10, 2025
There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a roomful of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mothers care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children.
Mothers are all slightly insane.
I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.
My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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.
The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
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.
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
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.
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.
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 heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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.
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.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.
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.
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