Mother Quotes
Who sat and watch'd my infant head,
When sleeping on my cradle bed,
And tears of sweet affection shed?
My Mother.
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
If I was damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o' mine, O mother o'mine.
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
The best academy, a mother's knee.
Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I’m putting out in the world, is because of my children.
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is."
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.
I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
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.
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men, - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
A mother is the greatest teacher.
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all
The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks.
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My Mother.
