Monday, February 25, 2013

Mother Qoutes


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 


My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou 

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln 

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Jessica Lange 


He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.  ~Margaret Culkin Banning


An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.  ~Spanish Proverb

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare



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,Women and Beauty


If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?  ~Milton Berle

Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson



Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.  ~Aristotle


Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.  ~John Lancaster Spalding


Motherhood has a very humanizing effect.  Everything gets reduced to essentials.  ~Meryl Streep


The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.

~William Goldsmith Brown


What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?  ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson



The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. ~Author Unknown


Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul


[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.  ~Emily Dickinson


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


Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.  ~Lisa Alther


Don't ever tell the mother of a newborn that her baby's smile is just gas.  ~Jill Woodhull


Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.  ~Beverly Jones


That best academy, a mother's knee.  ~James Russell Lowell


A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.  ~Victor Hugo


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, Beloved, 1987

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com



Mommies are just big little girls.  ~Author Unknown


A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go.  ~Author Unknown


Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over
.
~George Cooper



A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.  ~HonorĂ© de Balzac


A mother's heart is a patchwork of love.  ~Author Unknown


A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.  But a mother's love endures through all.  ~Washington Irving


A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.  

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