Mom Quotations - Quotations

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."
--Abraham Lincoln
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
--Abraham Lincoln
"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
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."
--Albert Einstein
"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
-- Aristotle
"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like."
-- Arnold Bennett
"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but
whose place no one else can take."
-- Cardinal Mermillod
"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary."
-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
"I really learned it all from mothers."
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock
"If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylum would be filled with mothers."
-- Edgar Watson Howe
Mother and Child
"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 (1732-1799)
"And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me."
-- Gloria Vanderbilt
"My mother loved children & she would have given anything if I had been one."
-- Groucho Marx
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
-- H. Jackson Brown
"I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother."
-- Hannah Nixon
"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
"What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Mothers and Children Under Three Umbrellas...
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
-- Honore' de Balzac (1799-1850)
"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."
-- Hosea Ballou
"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."
-- James Joyce
"The best academy, a mother's knee."
-- James Russell Lowell
"The phrase "working mother" is redundant."
-- Jane Sellman
"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."
-- Jewish proverb
"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."
--JFK
"A boy's best friend is his mother."
-- Joseph Stefano (from the Psycho screen play)
"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world."
-- Kate Douglas Wiggin
"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."
-- Lin Yutang
"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
--Mark Twain
"Motherhood is like Albania-- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there."
-- Marni Jackson
"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."
-- Mary Antin
"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."
-- Maya Angelou
"Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions."
-- Nancy Stahl
"Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1775-1817)
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
-- Oscar Wilde
"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
-- Pablo Picasso
"A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you, Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you."
-- Phyllis McGinley
"Men are what their mothers made them."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial."
-- Sydney Biddle Barrows
"The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother—which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician."
-- Sydney J. Harris
"An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest."
-- Spanish proverb
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
-- Theodore Hesburgh
"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love."
-- Thomas C. Haliburton
"Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction."
-- Thomas Fuller
"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
"Children are the sum of what mothers contribute to their lives."
-- Unknown
"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
-- Victor Hugo
Femme Enfant (c.1920)
"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
"The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother."
-- W. C. Fields
"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it."
-- W. D. Howells
"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
--William Makepeace Thackeray
"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world."
-- William Ross Wallace
UPDATED
"If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others."
-- Alice Miller
"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
"A mother understands what a child does not say."
-- Anonymous
"All mothers are physically handicapped. They have only two hands."
-- Anonymous
My Mother's Hands
"In the years since I began following the ways of my grandmothers I have come to value the teachings, stories, and daily examples of living which they shared with me. I pity the younger girls of the future who will miss out on meeting some of these fine old women."
-- Beverly Hungry Wolf
"I love old mothers -- mothers with white hair And kindly eyes, and lips grown softly sweet With murmured blessings over sleeping babes."
-- Charles S. Ross
"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it."
-- Chinese Proverb
"The angels ... singing unto one another, Can find among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of "mother""
-- Edgar Allen Poe (To My Mother)
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before."
-- Ellen Greene
"The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face."
-- D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality
"If evolution really works how come mothers only have two hands?"
-- Ed Dussault
"I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still The deepest impressed on my heart."
-- Eliza Cook
"No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement."
-- Florida Scott-Maxell
"God sees us through our Mothers' eyes and rewards us for our virtues."
-- Ganeshan Venkatarman
A close view of a mother holding her newborn babys hand
"All I am, I owe to my mother."
-- George Washington
"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 Wright Mabie
"Education is the mental railway, beginning at birth and running on to eternity. No hand can lay it in the right direction but the hand of a mother."
-- Mrs. H. O. Ward
"A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character."
-- Mrs. H. O. Ward
"There is a point where you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends. It doesn't happen for everyone -- but it did for Mom and me."
-- Jamie Lee Curtis
"The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way."
-- James David Barber
"A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is."
-- Keith L. Brooks
"Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is."
-- Louise Hart
"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
"A mother is never cocky or proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium."
-- Mary Kay Blakeley
"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love."
-- Mildred B. Vermont
"One lamp - thy mother's love - amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy - as it was lit and lent thee here."
-- Nathaniel Parker Willis
"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
-- Oprah Winfrey
"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new."
-- Rajneesh
" No influence is so powerful as that of the mother."
-- Sarah Josepha Hale
"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."
-- Unknown
"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 Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother."
-- 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
"The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated."
-- Washington Irving
"Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime."
-- William Shakespeare