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Mother Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
- Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
- What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
- Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like…
- The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
- The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them,…
- [Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could…
- The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling…
- …for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into…
- I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…
- …she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
- Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
- Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek…
- Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her…
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- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
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- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila
- There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video. — Dan Aykroyd
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann