^^What is a mother?^^

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^^What is a mother?^^
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Fri, 05-07-2010 - 11:37am

 


Here are some quotes about  "mothers* that I thought were interesting....


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


Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.  ~Mildred B. Vermont


A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.  ~Peter De Vries


The phrase "working mother" is redundant.  ~Jane Sellman


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.  ~Rajnees


I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.  ~Abraham Lincoln


Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.  ~Pearl S. Buck


A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.  ~Author Unknown


Sweater, n.:  garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.  ~Ambrose Bierce


Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness.  It's the men who are discriminated against.  They can't bear children.  And no one's likely to do anything about that.  ~Golda Meir


The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.  ~Honoré de Balzac


All women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy.  No man does.  That's his.  ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895


He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare


An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.  ~Spanish Proverb


She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.  ~Margaret Culkin Banning


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, Women and Beauty


If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?  ~Milton Berle


Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson


Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.  ~Aristotle


Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.  ~John Lancaster Spalding


Motherhood has a very humanizing effect.  Everything gets reduced to essentials.  ~Meryl Streep


The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown


What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?  ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson


My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being.  I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.  ~Graycie Harmon


The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. ~Author Unknown


Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul

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Fri, 05-07-2010 - 9:20pm
Good ones Shari.

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Sat, 05-08-2010 - 10:27am
I love these, Shari, thanks so much!




































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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 05-08-2010 - 12:57pm

Thanks for sharing, Shari!

Take care.  God bless u & yours,


Joan

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Registered: 02-16-2009
Sat, 05-08-2010 - 4:11pm

Those are beautiful, Shari.

K