Quotes

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
-Moorish Proverb

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

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
-W. R. Wallace

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

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
-Abraham Lincoln

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
-Irish Proverb

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

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

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
-William M. Thackeray

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

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
-Erich Fromm

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

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

A mother is someone who dreams great dreams for you, but then she lets you chase the dreams you have for yourself and loves you just the same.
-Anonymous Author

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

Men are what their mothers made them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mother understands what a child does not say.
-Old Saying

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
-Washington Irving

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

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
-Jewish Proverb

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

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

The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
-Henry Ward Beecher