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It is impossible that the son of these tears should perish.
Augustine of Hippo
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher
The great academy, a mother’s knee.
Thomas Carlyle
You have omitted to mention the greatest of my teachers – my mother.
Winston Churchill, on being asked to check a list of those who had taught him
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues – faith and hope.
Charles Dickens
Most of the stones for the buildings of the City of God, and all the best of them, are made by mothers.
Henry Drummond
Holy as heaven a mother’s tender love,
the love of many prayers and many tears
which changes not with dim, declining years.
Caroline Norton
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
Jewish proverb
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton