For Mother With Love

"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!"
{Laurie Anderson}

"Look in those eyes... Listen to that dear voice... Notice the feeling of even a single touch that is bestowed upon you by that gentle hand ! Make much of it while yet you have that most precious of all gifts. Read the unfathomable love of those eyes; the anxiety of that tone and look, however slight is your pain. In after life you may have friends, fonds, dears, but never you will have again the inexpressible love & gentleness levished upon you which none but a mother bestows."
{Macaulay}

"I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money."{Joe Louis}
 
"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}

"The best medicine in the world is a mother's kiss."
{Anonymous}





 "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
{Mark Twain}

"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."
{Stevie Wonder}

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool Mom."
{Unknown}

"You couldn't fool your mother on the fool-ingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine."
{Homer Simpson}

"All I am I owe to my mother."
{George Washington}

"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world."
{W.R. Wallace}

"God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers."
{Jewish Proverb}

"To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language.
{Arlene Benedict}
 
"God sees us through our Mothers' eyes and rewards us for our virtues."
{Ganeshan Venkatarman}
 
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
{George Eliot}

"Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children."
{William Makepeace Thackeray}
 
"A mother is she who can take the place of all others."
{Cardinal Mermillod}
 
"Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries."
{Unknown}
 
"My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it."
{Marc Chagall}

"No influence is so powerful as that of the mother."
{Sarah Josepha Hale}

"The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
{Barbara Kingsolver}
 
"Mothers are instinctive philosophers."
{Harriet Beecher Stowe}

"A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters."
{George Herbert}

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
{Henry Ward Beecher}

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."
{Unknown}
 
"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
{Irish proverb}

"A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved."
{Kate Samperi}
 
"Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all."
{Katherine Butler Hathaway}
 
"For all the ways you've helped me grow I want to say I love you so."
{Unknown}
 
"Who ran to help me when I fell, Or kissed the place to make it well? ....My mother.
{Ann Taylor}

"A mother understands what a child does not say."
{Jewish proverb}

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

"Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean."
{Erich Fromm, psychologist}

"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
{Pablo Picasso}

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."
{Margaret Mead}

"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."
{Groucho Marx}

"Mother is the word for God in the eyes of children everywhere...
{Eric Draven}

"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."
{Robert Frost}

"When it comes to love, Mom's the word."
{Unknown}

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}

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}

Mother

"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}