Mother's Day - Quotations

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"Don't aim to be an earthly saint, with eyes fixed on a star, Just try to be the fellow that your Mother thinks you are."
-- Will S. Adkin
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."
-- Aeschylus
"On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged."
-- Aeschylus
"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."
-- Amos Bronson Alcott
"I have made a plan for my life, as I am in my teens, and no more a child. I am old for my age and don't care much for girls' things. People think I'm wild and queer; but mother understands and helps me. I have not told anyone about my plans but I am going to be good. . . . Now I'm going to work really, for I feel a desire to improve and be a help and comfort, not a care and sorrow to my dear mother."
-- Louisa May Alcott
"What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?"
-- Louisa May Alcott
"Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated."
-- Paulette Bates Alden
"Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease."
-- Lisa Alther
"All mothers are physically handicapped. They have only two hands."
-- Anonymous
"It's easy to pick children whose mothers are good housekeepers; they are usually found in other yards."
-- Anonymous
"My mother gave me a bumblebee pin when I started work. She said: "Aerodynamically, bees shouldn't be able to fly. But they do. Remember that.""
-- Jill E. Barad
" I know how to do anything - I'm a mom."
-- Roseanne Barr
"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
-- Ambrose Bierce
"The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it."
-- Victoria Billings
"A mother is never cocky or proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium."
-- Mary Kay Blakeley
"When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again."
-- Leon Blum
"Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte