Memory is the mother of all wisdom
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You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! Do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.
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I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.
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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.
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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 trouble thickens 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.
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There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
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There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest
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My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to sister
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
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Careful! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?
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But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of one day, she bore it with a good courage, because of the hope that she had in the Lord.
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She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.
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We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.
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A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium
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Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
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However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent
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