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“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one”
Jill Churchill
“A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it.”
Marcelene Cox
“Fear is the mother of morality”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
Mother Teresa
“Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.”
Chanakya
“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”
Aristotle
“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”
Erich Fromm
“Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.”
Dan Castellaneta