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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
Oscar Wilde
“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”
Erma Bombeck
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life”
Sophocles
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
Theodore Hesburgh
“This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own”
Aristotle
“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary”
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork”
Mae West
“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 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
