Words For Mothers

"I miss thee, my Mother!  Thy image is still
The deepest impressed on my heart."
{Eliza Cook}

"The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated."
{Washington Irving}

"A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review." {Robert Brault}


"I cannot forget my mother.  [S]he is my bridge.  When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely."  
{Renita Weems}

"A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is." 
{Keith L. Brooks}


"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."  
{Oliver Wendell Holmes}

Mother

"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds.  Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world."
{Kate Douglas Wiggin}

"If I was damned of body and soul,
 I know whose prayers would make me whole,
 Mother o' mine, O mother o'mine."
 {Rudyard Kipling}

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."
{James Joyce}


"My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation."
{Mark Twain}

"It's not easy being a mother.  If it were easy, fathers would do it."
{From the television show The Golden Girls}

"The mother's heart is the child's school-room."
{Henry Ward Beecher}


"Women know
  The way to rear up children (to be just)
  They know a simple, merry, tender knack
  Of tying sashes, fitting baby shoes,
  And stringing pretty words that make no sense,
  And kissing full sense into empty words.
  {Elizabeth Barrett Browning}

 "Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart."
{Author Unknown}

"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."
{Jules Michelet}


"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."
{Francis Thompson}


"My mom is literally a part of me.  You can't say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors."
{Carrie Latet}

"Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother."
{Moorish Proverb}


"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."
{Abraham Lincoln}


"No painter's brush, nor poet's pen
  In justice to her fame
  Has ever reached half high enough
  To write a mother's name.
  {Author Unknown}


"Women who miscalculate are called mothers."
{Abigail Van Buren}


"A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done."
{Author Unknown}


"Mirror, mirror on the wall,
  I am my mother after all."
 {Author Unknown}


"One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage.  To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon.  Bare hands - a kind of mad courage."
{Robert Fulghum}

"One lamp - thy mother's love - amid the stars
  Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before
  The throne of God, burn through eternity -
  Holy - as it was lit and lent thee here.
  {Nathaniel Parker Willis}

"No one in the world can take the place of your mother.  Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right.  She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones."
{Harry Truman}

"Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.  {Robert Brault}

"Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
  Ripe on a plate.
  And while you live,
  Relentlessly she understands you.
  {Phyllis McGinley}
 
 "All mothers are working mothers." 
{Author Unknown}


"Because I feel that in the heavens above
  The angels, whispering one to another,
  Can find among their burning tears of love,
  None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
  Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you,
  You who are more than mother unto me."
  {Edgar Allan Poe}


"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
{Oprah Winfrey}


"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
{Irish Proverb}