Mother Child

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Quotes to Honor Mothers

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

~ Jill Churchill

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.

~ Rajneesh

Making a decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

~ Elizabeth Stone

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

 

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

~ Jewish Proverb

 

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

~ Meryl Streep

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

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

~ Marion C. Garretty

We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

~ Phyllis Diller

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

~ Mark Twain

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

~ Theodore Hesburgh

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.

~ Author Unknown

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

~ Erich Fromm

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

~ Erich Fromm

No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life.

~ Anonymous

It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.

~ From The Golden Girls

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher

A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.

~Author Unknown

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

~ Maya Angelou

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

~ Alice Walker

About the Author

© Kay Douglas. Kay Douglas is a psychotherapist and author of 4 self-help books and the founder of Let's Thrive: happy, healthy, sustainable living, a website that helps people to have more fun, be healthier and care for the environment in practical ways. For more information visit www.letsthrive.co.nz