Mother Quotes

"Good family life is never an accident but always an achievement by those who share it." James H. Bossard

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." Cardinal Mermillod

"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all." Benjamin Spock

"Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life." Maureen Hawkins

"All that I am my mother made me." John Quincy Adams

"I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself." Harriet Beecher Stowe

"One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters." George Herbert

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character." Hosea Ballou

"Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries." T. DeWitt Talmage

"A mother is the one who is still there when everyone else has deserted you." Author Unknown

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." Lin Yutang

"Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother." Jane Welsh Carlyle

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing." Toni Morrison

"Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it." Pamela Glenconner

"To understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself." Chinese Proverb

"A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance." Author Unknown

"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 troubles thicken 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

"Rejecting things because they are old-fashion would rule out the sun and the moon, and a mother's love. Author Unknown

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."Oprah Winfrey

"A mother understands what a child does not say." Proverb

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers." Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Nothing else will ever make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, as motherhood." Elia Parsons

"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 W. Mabie

"Mothers Day is in honor of the best Mother who ever lived - the Mother of your heart"
Anna Jarvis

"A mother holds her children's hands for a while, their hearts forever." Author Unknown

"The mother love is like God's love; he loves us not because we are lovable, but because it is His nature to love, and because we are His children." Earl Riney

"Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance." Ruth E. Renkel

"Once upon a memory someone wiped away a tear,
held me close and loved me, Thank you, Mother dear." Author Unknown

"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life." Sophocles

"Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines." Eleanor Roosevelt

"For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have." Hannah W. Smith

"All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother." Abraham Lincoln

"A debt so large and special the like there is no other
This debt and so much very more we owe it to our MOTHER!"
Bill Ronan, from A DEBT

"Motherhood...What a glorious career!"
Author Unknown, from Not Just a Mom

"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

"To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck." Buddha

"I know you've been the best there is -
a mother beyond all compare."
Author Unknown, from MOTHER

"For all you've done...
thank you, Mom.
For all that you are...
I love you.
Author Unknown, from MOTHER

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