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Biblical Quote
V. Honor thy father and thy mother:
that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God give the thee.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- H.W. Beecher

Let France have good Mothers, and she will have good sons.
- Napoleon I

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily of chapters of the bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but the best part of my taste for literature.
- John Ruskin

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Lincoln

A father may turn his back on his child; brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies; husbands may desert their wives and wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.
- Washington Irving

Mother
Simply having children does not make mothers.

Over my slumbers your loving watch keep;
Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.
- Elizabeth Chase

The hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
- W. R. Wallace

Her children arise up, and call her blessed.
- Proverbs 31:28

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William M. Thackeray

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- H. W. Beecher

What are Raphael's madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in a permanent outline forever?
- T. W. Higginson

Mother always said that honesty was the best policy, and money isn't everything. She was wrong about other things too.
- Gerald Barzan

"Once in Royal David's city"
Once in Royal David's City
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a mother laid her baby,
In a manger for its bed:
Mary was that mother mid,
Jesus Christ her little child.
- Cecil Frances Alexander

A mother who is really a mother is never free.
- Honore De Balzac

What the mother sings the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
- Jill Bennett

An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
- Ben Lindsey

In Psycho:-
"A boy's best friend is his mother."
- Anthony Perkins

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