Idea Book
Mother

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers  Hebrew proverb

A bustling mother makes a slothful daughter  Latin proverb

A mother's arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them  Victor Hugo

A woman who can cope with the terrible twos can cope with anything  Judith Clabes

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is another  Erica Jong

Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a “beacon of orientation” during the first five months of life. The mother’s presence is like a fixed light that gives the child the security to move out safely to explore the world and then return safely to harbor.  Louise J. Kaplan

Motherhood is an experience that opens your eyes and your heart to exactly how magnificent and amazing life is  Donna Newman

Where there is great love, there is always a mother nearby  Norma Scarlett

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children  William Makepeace Thackeray

Nothing else will ever make you as happy or as sad, as proud or tired, as motherhood  Elia Parsons

Is not a young mother one of the sweetest sights life shows us?  William Makepeace Thackeray

Motherhood: all love begins and ends there  Robert Browning

The infant’s first social achievement, then, is his willingness to let the mother out of sight without undue anxiety or rage, because she has become an inner certainty as well as an outer predictability.  Erik H. Erikson

A mother is not a person; she's a miracle  Mary Hollingsworth

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one  Jill Churchill