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Quotes About Mother

A curious monomaniac,' said Eugene. 'The man seems to believe that everybody was acquainted with his mother!
~ Charles Dickens
No. I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but Betsey Trotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams and shadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled; and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the earthly bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above the ashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had never been.
~ Charles Dickens
Twenty years back, yes; at this time of my life, no. For, as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in the circle, nearer and nearer to the beginning. It seems to be one of the kind smoothings and preparings of the way. My heart is touched now, by many remembrances that had long fallen asleep, of my pretty young mother (and I so old!), and by many associations of the days when what we call the World was not so real with me, and my faults were not confirmed in me.
~ Charles Dickens
I should like to ask you:--Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem days of very long ago?
~ Charles Dickens
Went down into a modest life of usefulness and happiness. Went down to give a mother's care, in the fulness of time, to Fanny's neglected children no less than to their own, and to leave that lady going into Society for ever and a day.
~ Charles Dickens
Sweater, n.: garment worn by a child when its mother is feeling chilly.
~ Author Unknown
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
~ Spanish proverb
Don't ever tell the mother of a newborn that her baby's smile is just gas.
~ Jill Woodhull
There's nothing like a mama-hug.
~ Terri Guillemets, 1996
My mother held the ladder for me to climb to the stars.
~ Monte Durham
A little girl, when asked where her home was, replied, "Where Mother is."
~ Keith L. Brooks
Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart.
~ Author Unknown
The infant opens its intelligence and love to the mother's song as much as to the mother's face... Every mother ought to sing. Let memories that begin life have songs that last for life.
~ Henry Giles (1809–1882)
Night is the mother of Councels.
~ George Herbert
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy; and Common-wealth, the mother of Peace, and Leisure: Where first were great and flourishing Cities, there was first the study of Philosophy.
~ Thomas Hobbes
The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother.
~ Author Unknown
Minli was not brown and dull like the rest of the village. She had glossy black hair with pink cheeks, shining eyes always eager for adventure, and a fast smile that flashed from her face. When people saw her lively and impulsive spirit, they thought her name, which meant quick thinking, suited her well. "Too well," her mother sighed, as Minli had a habit of quick acting as well.
~ Grace Lin
You couldn't shake my belief in Jesus any more than you could shake my in my mother or father. Because I have known them. If you told me hadn't had a mother and she was't really good and kind to me, I'd just smile and pity you because you never knew her. But I have, you know. I don't blame you, for you've never known Jesus.
~ Grace Livingston Hill
Hamlet's mother says to Hamlet, "Why seems it so particular with thee?" What is the difference between belief and make-belief? What makes us give to any one belief (since it is only a matter of shifting, tuning the mind) the peculiar weight of actuality? "For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
~ Graham Swift
A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.
~ Grantly Dick-Read
The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breatfeeding satisfies all three.
~ Grantly Dick-Read
My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.
~ Graycie Harmon
My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men." "This isn't a car," he pointed out.
~ Greg Cox
thought he knew how to begin. "After you kids came along," he told her, "your mother said something I didn't really understand. She said, 'I look at the babies and see myself as they'll remember me.
~ Greg Keyes