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My mother was a classic matriarchal figure. She'd sing round the house and always had music on.
- Bill Bailey
I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.
- Marina Abramovic
All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
- Marianne Williamson
Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.
- Bernice King
I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln
She's her mother's daughter - full of courage, determination, and strength she doesn't even know she has.
- Wanda Brunstetter
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 trouble thickens 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
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!
- Washington Irving
A mother is the truest friend we have . . .
- Washington Irving
There are some causes sosacred as to carry with them an irresistible appeal to every virtuous bosom; and he needs but little power of eloquence, who defends the honour of his wife, his mother, or his country. I
- Washington Irving
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 desert us; when trouble thickens 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