Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.
There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.
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