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26. “Motherhood is like Albania– you can’t trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.”
— Marni Jackson

27. “We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
— Mary Antin

28. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
— Maya Angelou

29. “Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions.”
— Nancy Stahl

30. “Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes (1775-1817)

31. “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
— Oscar Wilde

32. “When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
— Pablo Picasso

33. “A mother’s hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you, Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.”
— Phyllis McGinley

34. “Men are what their mothers made them.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

35. “There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

37. “People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ‘being lived.’ They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.”
— Stephen R. Covey

38. “Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn’t want your mother to hear at your trial.”
— Sydney Biddle Barrows

39. “The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother—which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.”
— Sydney J. Harris

40. “An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.”
— Spanish proverb

41. “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
— Theodore Hesburgh

42. “A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.”
— Thomas C. Haliburton

43. “Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don’t mean a thing.”
— Toni Morrison

44. “Children are the sum of what mothers contribute to their lives.”
— Unknown

45. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
— Victor Hugo

46. “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us when adversity takes the place of prosperity when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
–Washington Irving

47. “The only thing a lawyer won’t question is the legitimacy of his mother.”
— W. C. Fields

48. “A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it’s too late to let her know that he sees it.”
— W. D. Howells

49. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
–William Makepeace Thackeray

50. “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”
— William Ross Wallace

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26. “He was all questions. But small boys expect their fathers to be walking lexicons, to do two jobs at once, to give replies as they are working, whether laying stones or building models…digging up a shrub, or planting flower beds…Boys have a right to ask their fathers questions…Fathers are the powers that be, and with their power and might must shelter, guard, and hold and teach and love…All men with sons must learn to do these things…Too soon, too soon, a small son grows and leaves his father’s side to test his manhood’s wings. “
–Roy Z. Kemp

27. “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,” my dad would reply, “we’re raising boys.”–Harmon Killebrew

28. “Up to a point a man’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, “This I am today; that I will be tomorrow.”
— Louis L’Amour

29. “A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

30. “The love of a father is one of nature’s greatest masterpieces.”

31. “The merry family gatherings– The old, the very young The strangely lovely way they Harmonize in carols sung. For Christmas is tradition time– Traditions that recall The precious memories down the years, The sameness of them all.”
— Helen Lowrie Marshall

32. “The thing to remember about fathers is, they’re men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon–seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock–full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get. “
— Phyllis Mcginley

33. “Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush; anxious for greater developments and greater wishes and so on; so that children have very little time for their parents; Parents have very little time for each other; and the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”
— Mother Teresa

34. “It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”
— Kent Nerburn (Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man)

35. “As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
— Pope John Paul II

36. “He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care. “
— William Penn

37. “The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. “
— Bertrand Russell

38. “Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what’s been taught them.”
— Jonas Salk

39. “Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible–the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
— Virginia Satir

40. “I’ve been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself.”
— Rick Schroeder

41. “It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. “
— Anne Sexton

42. “It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
— William Shakespeare

43. “My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately “
— George Bernard Shaw

44. “It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.”
— John Sinor

45. “The family–that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.”
— Dodie Smith

46. “All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand–any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.”
— Freya Stark

47. “It’s clear that most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
— Gloria Steinem

48. “Children learn to smile from their parents.”
— Shinichi Suzuki

49. “Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don’t fly. Eagles don’t swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don’t have feathers. Stop comparing. There’s plenty of room in the forest.”
— Chuck Swindoll

50. “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. “
— Mark Twain

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