They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand at them. Somehow it seemed as if they couldn't have got through the day without that, for whatever their mood might be, the last glimpse of that motherly face was sure to affect them like sunshine.
Louisa May Alcott
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The child, in the decisive first years of his life, has the experience of his mother, as an all-enveloping, protective, nourishing power. Mother is food; she is love; she is warmth. To be loved by her means to be alive, to be rooted, to be at home.
Erich Fromm
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The goodness of home is not dependent on wealth, or spaciousness, or beauty, or luxury. Everything depends on the mother.
G. W. Russell
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A mother understands what a child does not say.
Yiddish proverb
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What do girls DO who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Louisa May Alcott
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To love the tender heart hath ever fled,
As on its mother's breast the infant throws its sobbing face, and there in sleep forgets its woe.
Mary Tighe
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Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My Mother
Ann Taylor
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She never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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Dear Mother; I'm all right. Stop worrying about me.
2000 B.C. In an Egyptian letter
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It doesn't matter how old I get, whenever I see anything new or splendid, I want to call, "Mom, come and Look."
Helen Exley
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The doctors told me I would never walk, but my mother told me I would, so I believed my mother
Wilma Rudolph
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