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A Freudian slip
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Author Unknown
A large heartMy 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.
Mark Twain
A mother's armsA mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
A mother's happinessA mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honoré de Balzac
A mother's loveA 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 Irving
A mother's love is notWhatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce
A mother's workA man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
Author Unknown
All that I amAll that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
EverywhereGod could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
Jewish Proverb
HeavenHeaven lieth at the feet of mothers.
Prophet Muhammad
I rememberI remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln
My angel MotherAll that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
Abraham Lincoln
She never did care for pieA mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
Tenneva Jordan
The heart of a motherThe heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honoré de Balzac
The lovely AprilThou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
William Shakespeare
The strongest linksThe tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
Washington Irving
They are certainMothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle
To enter ParadiseHe who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.
Prophet Muhammad
When you are troubledA mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Emily Dickinson
Women's LiberationWomen's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
Golda Meir
Working mothersAll mothers are working mothers.
Author Unknown