Mom Quotes

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The mother is weightier than the earth; the father is higher than the heavens.”

The Mahabharata

“There is no guru equal to a mother.”

Sanskrit Saying

“There is no temple greater than a mother.”

Tamil Proverb

“The mother who hears her son called a wise man rejoices more than on the day she gave him birth.”

Thiruvalluvar

“The mother represents colourless love that knows no barter, love that never dies.”

Swami Vivekananda

“Paradise lies at the feet of mothers.”

Arabic Saying

“The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word 'Mother,' and the most beautiful call is the call of 'My mother.'”

Kahlil Gibran

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.”

George Eliot

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“You too, my mother, read my rhymes for love of unforgotten times.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”

Erich Fromm

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

Agatha Christie

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”

Barbara Kingsolver

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”

Elizabeth Stone

“There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”

Jill Churchill

“A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”

Tenneva Jordan

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”

Maya Angelou

“A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.”

Princess Diana

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”

Robert Browning

“When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”

Erma Bombeck

“The outstanding impression my mother has left on my memory is that of saintliness.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“Amor matris, subjective and objective genitive, may be the only true thing in life.”

James Joyce

“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”

Marion C. Garretty