453 Proverbs about Mother / Page 5
81. The calf is not afraid of the mother's horns.
82. Even if a baby seems unpleasant to look at, his mother never refuses him.
83. When a mother has twins she must sleep on her back.
84. You cannot hear a baby cry in the mother's womb.
85. A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which his mother puts into his palm.
86. A baby on its mother's back doesn't know the journey is long.
87. A child can play with its mother's breasts, but not its father's testicles.
88. A child doesn't belong to the father or mother; a child belongs to the ancestors.
89. A child doesn't breast-feed from a stepmother if its mother is still alive.
90. A child who is fearless is going to bring tears to his mother's eyes.
91. A child who protested when being stripped on the back by its mother, it's humbled by the scorching sun when left to walk.
92. A father voodoos with his son and a mother voodoos with her daughter.
93. A lamb takes after its mother.
94. A mother cannot give birth to something bigger than herself.
95. A mother of twin should have impartial breasts.
96. Every frog is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
97. He who asks for the meaning of a proverb has called her/his mother's dowry a waste.
98. He who never moves about appreciates only one's mother's cookery skills.
99. If a mother steals with a child stripped in the back what do you expect of the child.
100. It takes a breast for a child to know it's mother and it takes a mother for a child to know its father.
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