Mom proverbs

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◆ That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

- Lauryn Hill99

◆ Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

- Elle Macpherson99

◆ My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

- Michael Jackson99

◆ My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

- Pablo Picasso99

◆ 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.

- Sophia Loren99

◆ What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

- Rose Kennedy99

◆ 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 Fromm99

◆ The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

- Honore de Balzac99

◆ 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.

- Washington Irving99

◆ I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

- Al Sharpton99

◆ My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

- Carly Fiorina99

◆ Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

- Billy Graham99

◆ When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

- Erma Bombeck99

◆ The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

- Arianna Huffington99

◆ I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

- E. M. Forster99