Mothers; big ones, small ones, long and lean, short and plump, loving or aloof, they have always been a staple of the literary world. Imagine Harry Potter without Mrs Weasley, or Little Women without Marmee? Of course there are many tens of thousands of mothers who appear in books and even more mentions of mothers but we have gathered together just a few for your delight and delectation.
“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.”
“When a child is born the mother also is born again.”
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
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“There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.”
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“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father,’ she whispers. ‘Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don’t you think?”
“All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.”
“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”
“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”
Motherly love is a force of nature and I think the above quotes describe us mums very well indeed. Here’s to mums everywhere.
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