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“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” - Cardinal Mermillod
 
“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
 
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh
 
“I look back on my childhood and thank the stars above.
For everything you gave me, but mostly for your love.”
Wayne F. Winters, from Ode to Mom
 
“All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother.” – Abraham Lincoln 
 
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” - Mark Twain
 
“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
 
“Men are what their mothers made them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
“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
 
“Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn’t want your mother to hear at your trial.” – Sydney Biddle Barrows
 
… and those are my MOM quotes for the day …
 
Happy Sunday!
Twainy
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