Quote by Francis Thompson
The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that t

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. – Francis Thompson

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All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. – Francis Thompson

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Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother&#

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A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. – Moorish Proverb

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It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. – From the television show The Golden Girls

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