I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

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

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

A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the read more

A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, read more

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.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the read more

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more read more

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, read more

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their read more

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.