A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.
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 desert us; when trouble thickens 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.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
Most mothers kiss and scold together.
Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel 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.
That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
Men are what their mothers made them.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!
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