“I'm the mother of 5. When God said, 'Multiply and replenish the earth' I thought he meant me personally!”
Dee Shihady
“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.”
Hamilton Wright Mabie
“You’re the prettiest mommy,” she said and I secretly felt grateful that she didn’t notice the gray and the extra pounds. In my heart I knew however, that if she had, she would have called them something wonderful.”
“Raising one's own children has certainly lost popularity in the 21st century, but in no way has it lost importance.”
Jennifer Marie Brown
“Look,' I reason, 'Mommy doesn't wear flowers with lines does she?' She just shrugs as if to say, 'If YOU'RE that controlled by societal opinion, that's you're problem.”
“When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.”
Margaret Sanger
“He that hath a wife and children must not sit with his fingers in his mouth”
Proverb
