Mother Quotes
Mothers are like fine collectibles - as the years go by, they increase in
value.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. - Abraham Lincoln
Blessed are the mothers of the earth. They combine the practical and the
spiritual into the workable ways of human life. - William L. Stinger
A mother is a blend of strength and survivorship, experience and insight,
fancy and reflection.
Take the word "family." Strike out the "m" for mother and the "y" for youth
- and all you have left is "fail." - Omar Burleson
A mother understands what a child does not say. - Jewish Proverb
Like kites without strings, and butterflies without wings, my mother taught
me to soar with my dreams. - William H. McMurry III
The mother-child relationship is very paradoxical. It requires the most
intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child
grow away from the mother and become fully independent. - Erich Fromm
A mother is the one through whom God whispers love to His little children.
My mom is the one I love best. My mom isn't like the rest. She's funny and
she's pretty. She's kind and she's witty. I love you! You are the sweetest!
A mother laughs our laughs, sheds our tears, returns our love, fears our
fears. She lives our joys, cares our cares and all our hopes and dreams she
shares.
Mother's arms are made up of tenderness and sweet sleep blesses the child
who lies therein.
When God thought of Mother, he must have laughed satisfaction and framed it
quickly--so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty was
the conception.
A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five
people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
A mother is like an island in life's ocean vast and wide, a peaceful quiet
shelter from the restless tide.
There is no friendship, no love like that of the mother for her child.
Mother is the heartbeat of the home.
A mother's love perceives no impossibilities.
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the
impossible.
No language could express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's
love.
Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of little children.
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw a woman who
helps me give birth to myself.
It was when I had my first child that I understood how much my mother loved
me.
A mother's love is like a circle. It has no beginning and no ending. It
keeps going around and around ever expanding, touching everyone who comes in
contact with it. Engulfing them like the morning's mist, warming them like
the noontime sun and covering them like a blanket of evening stars. A
mother's love is like a circle. It has no beginning and no ending.
A mother is she who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one
else can take.
She is strength, She is beauty, She is love... She is my Mom and I love her
more than words can say.
A mother’s love is forever; time, distance, hardship... all fall before the
strength of her love.
Real mothers know that a child’s growth is not measured by height or years
or grades... It is marked by the progression of Mama to Mommy to Mother.
Mothers are the only goddesses in whom the whole world believes.
Simply having children does not make mothers. - John A. Shedd
A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
- Sophia Loren
A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance.
Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a
grandmother.
A mother holds her children's hands for a while, their hearts forever.
A mother is someone who dreams great dreams for you, but then she lets you
chase the dreams you have for yourself and loves you just the same.
A mother should be like a quilt--keep the children warm but don't smother
them.
A mother's love is not blind; it's just very nearsighted.
A mother is neither cocky nor proud because she knows the school principle
may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle
through the gymnasium. - Mary Kay Blakely
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning
unnecessary. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Mom, I love you more than you love me because you have only loved me for a
part of your life and I have loved you for all of mine.
The two most important things a mother can give a child are first roots and
then wings.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is
roots; the other, wings. - Hodding Carter, Jr.
A mother who is really a mother is never free. - Honore De Balzac
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. - Lin Yü-tang
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. - Old Jewish
Proverb
There is no influence so powerful as that of a mother, but next in rank in
efficacy is that of a schoolmaster. - Sarah Josepha Hale
My mother is a woman who speaks with her life as much as her tongue. -
Kesaya E. Noder
Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of small children. -
Draven, "The Crow"
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your
father's. He's more particular. - Robert Frost
Nobody knows how to pamper like a mom. - Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
The angels, whispering to one another can find, among their burning terms of
love, none so devotional as that of "Mother." - Edgar Allen Poe
Of all the things that come in numbers; plenty of rainbows, stars in the
sky, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles cousins, you have but one mother.
A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved. - Kate
Samperi
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the
longest. - Irish Proverb
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always
find forgiveness. - Honore' de Balzac
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 troubles thicken 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
Generally the man with a good wife, or the woman with a good husband, or the
children with good parents discover too late the goodness they overlooked
while it was in full bloom. - James Douglas |