A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
I was raised by a single mother.
Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Most mothers kiss and scold together.
This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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