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“A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”
Mark Twain
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
Honore de Balzac
“Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.”
Buddha
“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”
Alice Walker
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”
Irish Proverb
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother”
Abraham Lincoln
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
Maya Angelou
“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge