A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲，她做饭做得那么好，那么关心他的咳嗽，那么慈祥地帮助他做作业，在某些情况下，她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

马戏团就像一个母亲，一个可以信赖的人，一个奖惩分明的人。

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

一天有时是我们的母亲，有时是我们的继母。

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

父亲可能背弃他的孩子，兄弟姐妹可能成为根深蒂固的敌人，丈夫可能抛弃妻子，妻子可能抛弃丈夫。惟有母亲的慈爱，能看透一切。

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

流利的语言是母亲唯一不喜欢女儿像她的地方。

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

一个自由的种族不能由奴隶母亲所生。

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

母亲的一个吻使我成为一名画家。

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

他说任何爱国者都不应该在战争结束前攻击战争……是说没有好儿子应该警告他的母亲悬崖，直到她倒下。

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

母亲仍然是母亲，是世上最神圣的东西。

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

母亲应该给孩子们极大的热情;他们在与世界交往中必然会失去一切，但即使失去了一切，仍有足够的力量促使命运注定要用伟大的行动来支持他们。

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

一个母亲花二十年的时间把她的孩子培养成一个男人，而另一个女人只用二十分钟就把他变成一个傻瓜。

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

母亲必须在那里抚养孩子。就是这样。我为那些努力工作却不能一直这样做的母亲们感到难过。

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

母亲的幸福就像一盏明灯，照亮了未来，却又以美好回忆的幌子反照着过去。

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

你看，母亲的一生是一出接一出的戏剧，时而温柔，时而可怕。一个小时也有欢乐和恐惧。

A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.

母爱是本能的、无条件的、永恒的。