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“When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”
Erma Bombeck
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
Oprah Winfrey
“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
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”
Alice Walker
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother”
Abraham Lincoln
“Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.”
Buddha
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”
Irish Proverb
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“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
