Favorite Quotes on Mothers
& Motherhood
"Nothing else will ever make you as happy or as sad, as
proud or as tired, as motherhood."
Elia Parsons
"Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life."
Maureen Hawkins
"God could not be everywhere, and
therefore he created mothers."
Jewish Proverb
"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."
Author Unknown
"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."
Tenneva Jordan
"Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an
affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away?
It is you, my mother."
Thomas Carlyle
"Good family life is never an accident but always an
achievement by those who share it."
James H. Bossard
"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like
doing for their babies is usually best after all."
Benjamin Spock
"All that I am my mother made me."
John Quincy Adams
"I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into
your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every
gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work
for these inward treasures yourself."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters."
George Herbert
"You don't appreciate your mother until your a mother
yourself."
Catherine Pulsifer
"Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our
hurts and worries."
T. DeWitt Talmage
"A mother is the one who is still there when everyone
else has deserted you."
Author Unknown
"Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother."
Jane Welsh Carlyle
"Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it."
Pamela Glenconner
"To understand your parents' love, you must raise
children yourself."
Chinese Proverb
"A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance."
Author Unknown
"Rejecting things because they are old-fashion would rule
out the sun and the moon,
and a mother's love.
Author Unknown
"A mother understands what a child does not say."
Proverb
"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she
surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely
holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his
best."
Hamilton W. Mabie
"Mothers Day is in honor of the best Mother who ever
lived--the Mother of your heart"
Anna Jarvis
"A mother holds her children's hands for a while, their
hearts forever."
Author Unknown
"The mother's love is like God's love; he loves us not
because we are lovable, but because it is His nature to love, and because we
are His children."
Earl Riney
"Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the
richest inheritance."
Ruth E. Renkel
"Once upon a memory someone wiped away a tear,
held me close and loved me, Thank you, Mother dear."
Author Unknown
"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."
Sophocles
"Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding,
don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop
along their own lines."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or
not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have."
Hannah W. Smith
"All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother."
Abraham Lincoln
"There is a religion in all deep love, but the love of a
mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly
Father."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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