Quotes For Mothers

"That best academy, a mother's knee."
{James Russell Lowell}

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them." 
{Victor Hugo}


"Grown don't mean nothing to a mother.  A child is a child.  They get bigger, older, but grown?  What's that suppose to mean?  In my heart it don't mean a thing." 
{Toni Morrison}

"There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own." 
{Robert Brault}

"The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones."
{Mignon McLaughlin}

"Mommies are just big little girls."

{Author Unknown}

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"A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go." 
{Author Unknown}


"Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
  Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
  Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
  But only one mother the wide world over."
  {George Cooper}

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."
{Honoré de Balzac}

"A mother's heart is a patchwork of love."
{Author Unknown}


"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."
{Washington Irving}

"A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have."
{Robert Brault}

"My mother is a poem
  I'll never be able to write,
  though everything I write
  is a poem to my mother.
  {Sharon Doubiago}

"You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool mom." 
{Author Unknown}


"With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood."
{Isadora Duncan}


"One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters."
{George Herbert}

"Who fed me from her gentle breast
  And hushed me in her arms to rest,
  And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
  My Mother.
  {Anne Taylor}

"Mother's love is peace.  It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
{Erich Fromm}

"There's nothing like a mama-hug."
{Terri Guillemets}

"Mother is a verb, not a noun."
{Proverb}

"Who ran to help me when I fell,
  And would some pretty story tell,
  Or kiss the place to make it well?
  My mother.
  {Ann Taylor}

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

"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed."
{Linda Wooten}

"The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face."
{D.W. Winnicott}

"The mother of boys work son-up to son-down."
{Author Unknown}

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

 "A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self.  And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships."
{Victoria Secunda}

"Mother's love grows by giving."
{Charles Lamb}