Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
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 and physical education I received from her.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
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.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
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.
Men are what their mothers made them.
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.
When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
I especially wish to praise and encourage young mothers. The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work... Do the best you can through these years, but whatever else you do, cherish that role that is so uniquely yours and for which heaven itself sends angels to watch over you and your little ones.
Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.
The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on.
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