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Being a good mother means teaching your children to care for the world.

Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

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

Starhawk Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (1979)

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859)

Mother and poetess do not rhyme, but they go together rather well.

Rosario Castellanos Genesis of an Ambassador (1971)

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

Abraham Lincoln The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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

James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Friend (1809)

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

I realized that while women may seem like regular individuals, mothers are nothing short of divine embodiment. They transcend the ordinary, not only navigating life's challenges but also contending with the forces of nature in relentless devotion to their children.

Sanu Sharma

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

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Princess (1847)

* A woman's love
Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
And by its weakness overcomes.

James Russell Lowell

They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea;
He wields a mighty scepter
O'er lesser powers than he;
But a mighty power and stronger,
Man from his throne hath hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

William Ross Wallace

Being a good mother doesn't end with creating a home where just my children can flourish. A good mother grows into a richly eutrophic old woman, knowing that her work doesn't end until she creates a home where all of life's beings can flourish.

Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

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.

Lu-diĝira

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.

John Trudell

* There is none,
In all this cold and hollow world, no fount
Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within
A mother's heart.

Felicia Hemans

And say to mothers what a holy charge
Is theirs—with what a kingly power their love
Might rule the fountains of the new-born mind.

Lydia Sigourney

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.

Timothy Shay Arthur

Happy he
With such a mother! faith in womankind
Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high
Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall,
He shall not blind his soul with clay.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Princess (1847)

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