Warm, Wonderful Words on Motherhood

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“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”
—Erma Bombeck

“When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly—so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.”
—Henry Ward Beecher

“Only mothers can think of the future—because they give birth to it in their children.”
—Maxim Gorky

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always discover forgiveness.”
—Honore de Balzac

“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love, and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”
—Stevie Wonder

“Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don’t prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along their own lines.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt

“Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime.”
—William Shakespeare

“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.”
—Stacia Tauscher

“It will be gone before you know it. The fingerprints on the wall appear higher and higher. Then suddenly they disappear.”
—Dorothy Evslin

“A woman with a child rediscovers the world. All is changed—politics, loyalties, needs. For now all is judged by the life of the child…and of all children.”
—Pam Brown

“You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool Mom.”
—Unknown

“Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.”
—Robert Gallagher

“Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.”
—Charlotte Gray

“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.”
—Michael Jordan

“Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them. Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them. Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him. Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.”
—Pamela Glenconner

“My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.”
—Buddy Hackett

“A hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the make of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.”
—Author Unknown

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