Mothers Quotes

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

Princess Diana

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

Henry Ward Beecher

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."

Jill Churchill

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

Sophocles

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

Gaspard Mermillod

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

Robert Browning

"The phrase 'working mother' is redundant."

Jane Sellman

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

William Makepeace Thackeray

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."

Barbara Kingsolver

"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love."

Mildred B. Vermont

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

Mark Twain

"Simply having children does not make mothers."

John A. Shedd

"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity."

Agatha Christie

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

Honoré de Balzac

"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world."

William Ross Wallace

"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."

Elaine Heffner

"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

"It's clear that most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

Gloria Steinem

"Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world."

Gail Tsukiyama

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

Erich Fromm

"Men are what their mothers made them."

"The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother."

"Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother."

Ann Taylor