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Motherhood
is the greatest potential influence in human society. Her
caress first awakens in the child a sense of security; her
kiss the first realization of affection; her sympathy and
tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the
world. Thus in infancy and childhood she implants
ever-directing and restraining influences that remain through
life.
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David 0. McKay
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Making the
decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever
to have your heart walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone |
I have found
the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what
they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S. Truman |
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I
looked on child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as
a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any
honorable profession in the world and one that
demanded the best
that I could bring it.
-
Rose Kennedy
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The term 'working mother' is
redundant.
- Jane Sellman |
Think of stretch marks as
pregnancy service stripes.
- Joyce Armor |
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There is only one pretty child in
the world, and every mother has it.
- Chinese Proverb |
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If evolution really works, how
come mothers only have two hands?
- Milton Berle |
Cleaning your house while your
kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it
stops snowing.
- Phyllis Diller |
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When I held my newborn baby in my
arms, I used to think what I said and did to him could have an
influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a
day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very
challenging and exciting thought for a mother.
- Rose Kennedy |
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It is not until you become a
mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and
understanding.
- Erma Bombeck |
Other things may change us, but
we start and end with family.
- Anthony Brandt |
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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 |
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher |
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship
fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest
salaried jobs...since the payment is pure love.
- Mildred B. Vermont |
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our
children outweigh our fears.
- Ellen Goodman
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
- Robert Browning |
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down
remorselessly all that stands in its path.
- Agatha Christie
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If a mother respects both herself and her child
from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him
respect for others.
- Alice Miller
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Over the years I have learned that motherhood is
much like an austere religious order, the joining of which
obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions.
- Nancy Stahl |
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child
is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown?
What's that suppose to mean? In my
heart it don't mean a thing.
- Toni Morrison |
A person's a person, no matter how small.
- Dr. Seuss |
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling
of trust and stability. She is their earth. She is
the only one they can count on for the things that matter most
of all. She is their food and their bed and the extra
blanket when it grows cold in the night; she is their warmth and
their health and their shelter; she is the one they want to be
near when they cry. She is the only person in the whole
world in a whole lifetime who can be these things to her
children. There is no substitute for her. Somehow
even her clothes feel different to her children's hands from
anybody else's clothes. Only to touch her skirt or her
sleeve makes a troubled child feel better.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
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Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but
it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing
else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as
tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop
his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your
own.
- Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons
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Children are likely to live up to what you believe
of them.
- Lady Bird Johnson |
