Enjoy the animal kingdom displaying a mum's love along with quotes that remind us of the vital role of a mother!
"A mother’s love grows by
giving." ― Charles Lamb
"Motherhood doesn't have a
nationality." ― Melinda Cross
"The phrase "working
mother" is redundant." ― Jane Sellmans
"The best academy, a
mother's knee." ― James Russell Lowell
"An ounce of mother is
worth a ton of priest." ― Spanish Proverb
"Men are what their
mothers made them." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The mother's heart is the
child's schoolroom." ― Henry Ward Beecher
"Of all the rights of
women, the greatest is to be a mother." ― Lin Yutang
"Biology is the least of
what makes someone a mother." ― Oprah Winfrey
"A mother is a mother
still, the holiest thing alive." ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"All that I am or ever
hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." ― Abraham Lincoln
"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like." ― Arnold Bennett
"The only thing a lawyer
won't question is the legitimacy of his mother." ― W. C. Fields
"My mother had a great
deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." ― Mark Twain
"A mother’s arms are made
of tenderness & children sleep soundly in them." ― Victor Hugo
"Mother’s love is peace.
It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." ― Erich Fromm
"All women become like
their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." ― Oscar
Wilde
"Whatever else is unsure
in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not." ― James
Joyce
"The most important thing
a father can do for his children is to love their mother." ― Theodore
Hesburgh
"Mom — the person most likely
to write an autobiography & never mention herself." ― Robert Brault
"Mother is the name for
GOD in the lips & hearts of little children." ― William Makepeace
Thackeray
"A mother is not a person
to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." ― Dorothy Canfield
Fisher
"To describe my mother
would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power." ― Maya Angelou
"Mother love is the fuel
that enables a normal human being to do the impossible." — Marion C.
Garretty
"When you look into your
mothers eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this
earth." — Mitch Albom
"Motherhood is like
Albania ― you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go
there." ― Marni Jackson
"The tie which links mother
& child is of such pure & immaculate strength as to be never
violated." ― Washington Irving
"A mother is she who can
take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." ―
Cardinal Mermillod
"A man never sees all that
his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees
it." ― W. D. Howells
"The heart of a mother is
a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." ―
Honore' de Balzac
"Youth fades; love droops;
the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all."
― Oliver Wendell Holmes
"I remember my mother's
prayers & they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my
life." ― Abraham Lincoln
"Motherhood: The most
exhausting, emotional, rewarding & life-enhancing journey a woman can
take." ― Charlotte Pearson
"I love my mother as the
trees love water & sunshine — she helps me grow, prosper, & reach great
heights." ― Terri Guillemets
"There is an instinct in a
woman to love most her own child — & an instinct to make any child who
needs her love, her own." ― Robert Brault
"How beautifully
everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds
a mother ready to take care of it." ― Jules Michelet
"Mothers all want their
sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians
in the process." ― John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Grown don't mean nothing
to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart
it don't mean a thing." ― Toni Morrison
"Your mother was like a
vine in your vineyard & planted by the water; it was fruitful & full of
branches because of abundant water." — EZEKIEL 19:10
"What is more powerful
than the love of a mother? Perhaps only GOD's hand in answering her earnest
pleadings on your behalf." ― Richelle E. Goodrich
"By & large, mothers
& housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They
are the great vacation-less class." ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"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
"Education commences at
the mother's knee, & every word spoken within hearsay of little children
tends toward the formation of character." ― Hosea Ballou
"A mother's love for her child
is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all
things & crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path." ―
Agatha Christie
"Over the years I have
learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of
which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions." ―
Nancy Stahl
"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
"When I was a child, my
mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become
a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter & wound up as
Picasso." ― Pablo Picasso
"A woman has two smiles
that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are
uttered, & the smile that lights on the first born babe, & assures it
of a mother's love." ― Thomas C. Haliburton
"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 & physical education I received
from her." ― George Washington
"Most of all the other
beautiful things in life come by twos & threes, by dozens & hundreds.
Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers & sisters, aunts &
cousins, comrades & friends — but only one mother in the whole world."
― Kate Douglas Wiggin
"No language can express
the power, & beauty, & heroism, & majesty of a mother’s love. It
shrinks not where man cowers, & grows stronger where man faints, & over
wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a
star." ― Edwin Hubbell Chapin
"A mother is the truest
friend we have, when trials, heavy & 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, & endeavor by her kind precepts & counsels to dissipate the clouds
of darkness, & cause peace to return to our hearts." ― Washington
Irving
I thank the LORD for my birth mother who I've never met because without you putting me up for adoption, I would not have enjoyed a lifetime with my mother whose parenting prepared me to be a house parent at the Florida Keys Children's Shelter in Key West, Florida!
¡Pura Vida!
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