Mothers quotations

You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.

- Pam Brown

Flowers For Mother

Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.

- Leroy Brownlow

I never thought that you should be rewarded for the greatest privilege of life.

- Mary Roper Coker Mother of the Year 1958

I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.

- Shelley Long

A woman with a child rediscovers the world.

All is changed - politics, loyalties, needs.

For now all is judged by the life of the child ... and of all children.

- Pam Brown

A mother laughs our laughter,

Sheds our tears,

Returns our love,

Fears our fears.

She lives our joys,

Cares our cares,

And all our hopes and dreams she shares.

- Julia Summers

Being a mother is an excitement and enticement and a growth. It is the possibilty that haunts and delights the young girl as she grows to womanhood. It is a part of the fantasy, both her longing for it and her fear of it. The months of pregnancy highlight all the richness of the remembered and internalized experience about mothering. The birth itself brings forth the baby, until now a fantasy, into reality. This real baby is a constant changing, crying, knowing being, and for me the delight of this experience has been one of the most important parts of my life as a women.

- Dr. Beverley Raphael

The greatest battle that ever was fought -

Shall I tell you where and when?

On the maps of the world you will find it not:

It was fought by the mothers of men.

- Joakuin Miller

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.

- John S C Abbott

Women as the guardians of children possess a great power. They are the moulders of their children's personalities and the arbiters of their development.

- Ann Oakley

Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability. She is their earth. She is the one they can count on for the things that matter most of all. She is their food and their bed and the extra blanket when it grows cold in the night; she is their warmth and their health and their shelter; she is the one they want to be near when they cry. She is the only person in the whole world in a whole lifetime who can be these things to her children. There is no substitute for her. Somehow even her clothes feel different to her children's hands from anybody else's clothes. Only to touch her skirt or her sleeve makes a troubled child feel better.

- Katharine Butler Hathaway

The love of husbands and wives may waver; brothers and sisters may become deep-rooted enemies; but a mother's love is so strong and unyielding that it usually endures all circumstances: good fortune and misfortune, prosperity and privation, honor and disgrace. A mother's love perceives no impossibilities.

- Paddock

Children, ay forsooth,

They bring their own love with them when they come...

- Jean Ingelow

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

- Elizabeth Stone

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.

- Charlotte Gray

There is in all this world

no fount of deep, strong,

deathless love,

save that within

a mother's heart.

- Felicia Hemans

Before becoming a mother

I had a hundred theories

on how to bring up children.

Now I have seven children

and only one theory:

love them,

especially when they least deserve

to be loved.

- Kate Samperi

The Great Umbilical

Motherly love is not much use if it expresses itself only as a warm gush of emotion, delicately tinged with pink. It must also be strong, guiding and unselfish. The sweetly sung lullaby; the cool hand on the feverd brow, the Mother's Day smiles and flowers are only a small part of the picture. True mothers have to be made of steel to withstand the difficulties that are sure to beset their children.

- Rachel Billington

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

Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own.

- Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons

I saw pure love when my son looked at me, and I knew that I had to make a good life for the two of us...

- Suzanne Somers

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.

- D H Lawrence

My Mother's love is the Almond Blossom of my mind and the fragrance is worth dying for. Her gentle compassionate touch shaped my very essence and -- forever -- I shall remember and although we are separated by the corridor of life and the door way of heaven, I will always attempt to become the man that she perceived me to be. I love you mom, where ever you are and I hope you can feel my written word and I envision you enveloped in a shortcut of kindness and love and -- forever -- happy and content. God bless all of the Mother's of his world and other Space Time Continuum.

- Frank L. de Roos III

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

- Alice Walker

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

The Kitchen God's Wife

- Amy Tan

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

- Annie Sullivan

My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.

- Elizabeth Kenny

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

- Golda Meir

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

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