Mother Quotes

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.

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 man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb

I'd like to be the ideal mother, but I'm too busy raising my kids.- Unknown

A mother understands what a child does not say. - Jewish Proverb

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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

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

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont

The sweetest sounds to mortals givenAre heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.~William Goldsmith Brown

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller

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. ~Rajneesh

Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill. ~John Erskine

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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt Talmage

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. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. ~William D. Tammeus

My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. ~Graycie Harmon

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~John Wilmot

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ~Haim Ginott

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too. ~Lionel Kauffman

Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~Marilyn Penland

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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it. ~Jean Kerr

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons

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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

You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be
I had a mother who read to me
.Strickland Gillilan

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.Leon Blum

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same – and most mothers kiss and scold together.Pearl S. Buck

The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infant's eyes.John Keble

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.Amos Bronson Alcott

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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.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. ~Lawrence Housman

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. ~Sam Levenson

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. ~John J. Plomp

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ~William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949

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

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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.

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

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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