No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of her child.
—Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Philosopher
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers.
—Hebrew Proverb
Mother’s love grows by giving.
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834) British Essayist, Poet
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
—Irish Proverb
A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.
—Unknown
A mother’s love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us.
—Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American Writer, Aphorist
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
—George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman
Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.
—Common Proverb
Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of his mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought,—the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
Who takes a child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
—Danish Proverb
The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but is always on her heart.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
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
Heaven is at the feet of mothers.
—Persian 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
The dignity, the grandeur, the tenderness, the everlasting and divine significance of motherhood.
—Thomas De Witt Talmage (1832–1902) American Clergyman, Author
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist
The loss of a mother is always severely felt: even though her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please, concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn.
—Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) French Poet, Politician, Historian
What reaches the mother’s heart will only reach the father’s knees.
—Polish Proverb
Observe how soon, and to what a degree, a mother’s influence begins to operate! Her first ministration for her infant is to enter, as it were, the valley of the shadow of death, and win its life at the peril of her own! How different must an affection thus founded be from all others!
—Lydia H. Sigourney (1791–1865) American Poetaster, Author
What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
—Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) American Social Reformer, Clergyman
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
—Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France
A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap.
—Danish Proverb
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–80) American Preacher, Poet
Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, entrusted to the mother’s mind alone, to fashion genius, form the soul for good, inspire a West, or train a Washington.
—Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879) American Poet
Say to mothers, what a holy charge is theirs; with what a kingly power their love might rule the fountains of the newborn mind.
—Lydia H. Sigourney (1791–1865) American Poetaster, Author
Few are like father, no one is like mother.
—Icelandic Proverb
All mothers are working mothers.
—Unknown
A mother can more easily feed seven children than seven children can feed one mother.
—French Proverb
A mother’s heart is always with her children.
—Common Proverb
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