'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.' ~ Robert Browning
'God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.' ~ Jewish Proverb
'Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.' ~ William M. Thackeray
'There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.' ~ Chinese Proverb
'The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.' ~ Henry Ward Beecher
'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 endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.' ~ Washington Irving
'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
'Men are what their mothers made them.' ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
'A mighty power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.'
~ William Ross Wallace
'Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.' ~ Anonymous
'The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.' ~ Honore de Balzac
'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 is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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