A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.
—Robert Brault
A mother’s heart is always with her children.
—Common Proverb
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.
—Lisa Alther (b.1944) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
—Meryl Streep (b.1949) American Actor
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
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
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
—Irish Proverb
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West (1892–1983) English Author, Journalist, Literary Critic
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
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
What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?
—Louisa May Alcott (1832–88) American Novelist
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 Children’s Books Writer, Short story, Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
—Pauline Phillips (Abigail van Buren) (b.1918) American Columnist
A father may turn his back on his child; brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies; husbands may desert their wives, and wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all; in. good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world’s condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.
—Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian
Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s the men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one’s likely to do anything about that.
—Golda Meir (1898–1978) Israeli Head of State
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
—James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish Novelist, Poet
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
—Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese Author, Philologist
There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you’re faced with somebody whose needs won’t be put off.
—Angela Carter (1940–92) English Novelist
The Enemy, who wears her mother’s usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.
—Phyllis McGinley (1905–78) American Children’s Books Writer, Poet, Writer of Children’s Books
The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.
—John Keble (1792–1866) English Anglican Priest, Poet
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 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
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 (1859–1907) English Poet, Ascetic
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles—and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech—look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.
—Philip Roth (1933–2018) American Novelist, Short-story 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
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
All mothers are physically handicapped. They have only two hands.
—Anonymous
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 (1835–1910) American Humorist
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
—Unknown
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