A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
-By Honore de Balzac
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child, and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
-By Robert Brault
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.
-By Washington Irving
My mother is a poem
I'll never be able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my mother.
-By Sharon Doubiago
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
-By George Herbert
There's nothing like a mama-hug.
-By Terri Guillemets
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
-By Ann Taylor
Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
-By T. DeWitt Talmage
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
-William Makepeace Thackeray
Mother's love grows by giving.
-By Charles Lamb
I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.
-By Renita Weems
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
-By Washington Irving
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
-By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
-An Irish Proverb
The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks.
-By Carrie Latet
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
-A Jewish Proverb
A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
-Author Unknown
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
-By Marilyn French
A mother understands what a child does not say.
-A Jewish Proverb
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
-Victor Hugo
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
-Mildred B. Vermont
The sweetest sounds to mortals given are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
-William Goldsmith Brown
For the hand that rocks the cradle - Is the hand that rules the world
-William Ross Wallace
A mother understands what a child does not say.
-Unknown
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
-Peter De Vries
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
-Abraham Lincoln
All mothers are working mothers.
-Unknown
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
-John Wilmot
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
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
-Charles R. Swindoll
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
This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!
-Thomas Moore
I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
-Abraham Lincoln
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
-Henry Ward Beecher
