The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

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 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.

Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My Mother.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

Misery is when you make your bed and then your mother tells you it’s the day she’s changing the sheets.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

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.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

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.

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is."

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

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 mother's hardest to forgive.
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.

A mother understands what a child does not say.

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.

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.