Quotes on mothers
That best academy, a mother's knee.
Lowell, James Russell
There's nothing like a mama-hug.
Radici, Adabella
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
Irving, Washington
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Proverb, Spanish
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
Spalding, John Lancaster
The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
Beecher, Henry Ward
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
Vermont, Mildred B.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Vries, Peter De
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
Lincoln, Abraham
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.
Twain, Mark
He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
Duncan, Isadora
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Hugo, Victor
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.
Morrison, Toni
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.
Alther, Lisa
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands, bare hands, and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands, a kind of mad courage.
Fulghum, Robert
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Bierce, Ambrose
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Thackery, William Makepeace
A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
Unknown, Author
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Winfrey, Oprah