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.
—George Washington (1732–99) American Head of State, Military Leader
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 (b.1934) Italian Actor
All mothers are working mothers.
—Unknown
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
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. The sentiment of love, the sentiment of maternity, the sentiment of the paramount obligation of the parent to the child as having called it into existence, enhanced just in proportion to the power and knowledge of the one and the weakness and ignorance of the other.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
—George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman
Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
—Thomas De Witt Talmage (1832–1902) American Presbyterian Clergyman, Religious Leader
A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.
—Unknown
There is a religion in all deep love, but the love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
A mother is the one who is still there when everyone else has deserted you.
—Unknown
A mother understands what a child does not say.
—Hebrew Proverb
I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers.
—Hebrew Proverb
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–96) American Abolitionist, Author
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest
—Spanish Proverb
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
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.
—Indian Proverb
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist
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.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846–1916) American Essayist, Editor
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 trouble thickens 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 (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
—Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
—Irish Proverb
There’s only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
—Common Proverb
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.
—Sri Rajneesh (Osho) (1931–90) Indian Spiritual Teacher