Mothers

(606 votes)   If evolution were true, mothers would have more than two hands. Only God gave us eyes in the back of our heads and the power to tune things out.

Courtney S.
Mom

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(393 votes)   What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888, American Author

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(364 votes)   Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(338 votes)   Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(318 votes)   He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(314 votes)   The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(296 votes)   Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

Norman Douglas
1868-1952, British Author

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(291 votes)   A mother's heart is always with her children.

Proverbs

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(285 votes)   A mother understands what a child does not say.

Jewish Proverbs
Sayings of Jewish Origin

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(283 votes)   But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(275 votes)   For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

Marguerite Duras
1914-, French Author, Filmmaker

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(275 votes)   Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

James Joyce
1882-1941, Irish Author

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(255 votes)   No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.

Barbara Ehrenreich
1941-, American Author, Columnist

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(249 votes)   Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner

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(244 votes)   God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers

Jewish Proverbs
Sayings of Jewish Origin

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