Mother Quotes: In Appreciation of Mothers and Motherhood

Mother Quotes: 1

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

~Sarah Josepha Hale~

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

~Victor Hugo~

Mom Quotes: 3

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~

Mother Quotation: 4

I want a girl just like the girl
that married dear old dad.

~William Dillon from the 1911 song "I Want a Girl"~

Mom Quotes: 5

Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.

~Louise Hart~

Mother Quotes

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~

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

Mom Quotes: 8

I miss thee, my Mother!

Thy image is still
The deepest impressed on my heart.

~Eliza Cook

Mother Quotes: 9

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

~D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality~

Mother Quotes: 10

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~