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There are
only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children.
One of these is roots, the other, wings.
- Hodding Carter |
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You know
children are growing up when they start
asking questions that have answers.
- John Plomp |
If
you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you
do matters very much!
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
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She
made me a security blanket when I was born. That faded green
blanket lasted
just long enough for me to realize
that the security part came from her.
- Alexander Crane |
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A mother is
she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one
else can take.
- Cardinal Mermillod
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Mother's
arms are made of tenderness,
and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
- Victor Hugo |
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It will be
gone before you know it. The fingerprints on the wall appear
higher and higher.
Then suddenly they disappear.
- Dorothy Evslin
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Any
child can tell you that
the sole purpose of a middle name
is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.
- Dennis Fakes |
Parents
are the bones on which
children cut their teeth.
- Peter Ustinov |
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The
noblest calling in the world is that of mother. True
motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest
of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece or who
can write a book that will influence millions deserves the
plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully
a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose
immortal souls will be exerting an influence throughout the ages
long after paintings shall
have faded, and books and statues shall have been
destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give.
- David 0. McKay
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The
character and history of each child may be a new and poetic
experience to the parent,
if he will let it.
- Margaret Fuller |
There
is always a moment in childhood
when the door opens
and lets the future in.
- Graham Green |
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In all my efforts to learn to read, my mother shared fully my
ambition and sympathized with me and aided me in every way she
could. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I
feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
- Booker T. Washington
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Children and
mothers never truly part -
Bound in the beating of each other's heart.
- Charlotte Gray
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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
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The
commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes
one a mother, which is as absurd as believing that having a piano
makes one a musician.
-
Sydney
J. Harris |
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What is home
without a mother?
- Alice Hawthorne |
My doctors
told me I would never walk again.
My mother told me I
would.
I believed my mother.
- Wilma Rudolph |
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Before
you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life.
- Maureen Hawkins |
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Homemaker is the ultimate career.
All other careers exist
for one purpose only -- to support the ultimate career!
- C.S. Lewis |
By
and large, mothers and housewives are the
only workers who do not
have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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A mother is
the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall
upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when
friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when
troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and
endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds
of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
-
Washington Irving
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Having
a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
- Martin Mull |
A
family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women,
an occasional animal,
and the common cold.
- Ogden Nash |
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There never
was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a
lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after
all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that
capital
I have made my way.
- Andrew Jackson
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We
are apt to forget that children
watch examples better
than they listen to preaching.
- Roy L. Smith |
It
is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them
to do for themselves that
will make them successful human beings.
- Ann Landers
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