A mother’s heart is always with her children.
—Common Proverb
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
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 (1806–67) American Poet, Playwright, Essayist
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 S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State
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 (1865–1936) British Writer, Poet, Novelist, Short Story Author
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 (1931–2019) American Novelist, Editor, Academic
Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God’s will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
—Queen Victoria (1819–1901) British Royal
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
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
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
—Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese Author, Philologist
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
—Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian
A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.
—Unknown
Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
Ripe on a plate.
And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.
—Phyllis McGinley (1905–78) American Children’s Writer, Poet, Children’s Books Author
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
—Emily Dickinson (1830–86) American Poet
Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
—Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–85) American Novelist, Civil Rights Activist
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.
—Unknown
The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.
—John Keble (1792–1866) English Anglican Priest, Poet
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–96) American Abolitionist, Author
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
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist
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
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him till it’s too late to let her know that he sees it.
—William Dean Howells (1837–1920) American Novelist, Critic
He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.
—English Proverb
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
—Alice Walker (b.1944) American Novelist, Activist
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
—Milton Berle (1908–2002) American Comedian, Actor
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American Feminist, Writer
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?
—Louisa May Alcott (1832–88) American Novelist
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