Mothers

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

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My mother is like the bright light in the sky, a doe on the hillsides. She is the morning star, shining even at noon-time. She is precious cornelian, a topaz from Marhaci.

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I saw that God rejoiceth that He is our Father, and God rejoiceth that He is our Mother, and God rejoiceth that He is our Very Spouse and our soul is His loved Wife. And Christ rejoiceth that He is our Brother, and Jesus rejoiceth that He is our Saviour. These are five high joys, as I understand, in which He willeth that we enjoy; Him praising, Him thanking, Him loving, Him endlessly blessing.

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Our Substance is our Father, God Almighty, and our Substance is our Mother, God, All-wisdom; and our Substance is in our Lord the Holy Ghost, God All-goodness.

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I believe in love at first sight because I loved my mom since I opened my eyes.

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

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A Kanga is Generally Regarded as One of the Fiercer Animals. I am not frightened of Fierce Animals in the ordinary way, but it is well known that, if One of the Fiercer Animals is Deprived of Its Young, it becomes as fierce as Two of the Fiercer Animals.

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A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.

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It is as unnatural to force a child from the mother as from the father.

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She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn’t exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they’d been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they’d got the label which said “mother,” everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said “child”...

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So loving to my motherVisit her face too roughly.

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And all my mother came into mine eyesAnd gave me up to tears.

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Just as the reward for honouring father and mother is very great, the punishment for transgressing it is very great. And the one who afflicts his parents causes the shechinah [presence of God] to separate from him and harsh decrees fall upon him and he is given many sufferings. And even if life smiles on him in this life, he will surely be punished in the World to Come.

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The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts — Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.

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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help, and thus we are able to recapitulate in the one word motherliness that which we have developed as the characteristic value of woman. Only, the motherliness must be that which does not remain within the narrow circle of blood relations or of personal friends; but in accordance with the model of the Mother of Mercy, it must have its root in universal divine love for all who are there, belabored and burdened.

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A crafty man does not transgress against his mother.

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A child should behave with modesty toward his mother.

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You should not speak arrogantly to your mother; that causes hatred for you. You should not question the words of your mother and your personal god. The mother, like Utu, gives birth to the man.

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The bearing and the training of a childIs woman's wisdom.

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Happy heHe shall not blind his soul with clay.

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Myra subsided into outraged and sulky silence. Her romantic dream of motherhood had been riven into sharp-edged fragments by late-night feedings, constant diaper washing, and a baby who persisted in looking and acting like a baby, not like a young hero.

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

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I do not care who it is, any child that turns on their mother is living in a terrible, terrible confusion. The earth is our mother. We must take care of the earth.

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The modern mother who is beginning to find that the rearing of children is the most difficult of all professions, more difficult than engineering, than law, or even than medicine itself. But along with this conviction comes the search for facts which will help them.

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Wives haven't enough to do today. Scientific mass production has made their tasks so easy that they are overburdened with time. They utilize this time in destroying the happiness of their children.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.

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[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

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The mother of all living.

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* There is none,A mother's heart.

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The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter."

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I arose a mother in Israel.

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If I were hanged on the highest hill,Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

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There was a place in childhood that I remember well,And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

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* A woman's loveAnd by its weakness overcomes.

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The bravest battle that ever was fought; It was fought by the mothers of men.

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Her children arise up and call her blessed.

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They say man rules the universe, Is the hand that rules the world.

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And say to mothers what a holy chargeMight rule the fountains of the new-born mind.

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Who ran to help me when I fell, My mother.

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.

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They say that man is mighty, Is the hand that rules the world.

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Sure I love the dear silver that shines in your hair,Oh, God bless you and keep you, Mother Machree.

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How vastly important is it, then, for mothers to have a higher regard for their duties—to feel deeply the immense responsibilities that rest upon them! It is through their ministrations that the world grows worse or better.

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We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

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Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

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In this unexpected scenario, the UFO occupants -- despite their obvious technological superiority -- are desperate for both human genetic material and the ability to feel human emotions -- particularly maternal emotions. Unlikely though it may seem, it is possible that the very survival of these extraterrestrials depends upon their success in absorbing chemical and psychological properties received from human abductees.

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