Mother Love Quotes:

Tender as a mothers love... And with my mother, that was certainly true.

- Bob Ross

topic: Mother, Mother Love

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

topic: Mother, Father, Heart, Mothers Day Love, Dear Mother

The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.

- Therese of Lisieux

topic: Mom, Mother, Heart, Mother Love

A mother's love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain. It is endless and unselfish and enduring, come what may, For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking.

- Helen Steiner Rice

source: "Mother, I Love You".

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Heart, Special Mother, Being A Mother

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

topic: Mother, Stars, Men, Special Mother, Good Mother

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away

- Helen Steiner Rice

source: Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.37, Revell

topic: Mother, Pain, Sacrifice, Endless Love, Everlasting Love

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Son, Loss Of A Parent

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Family, Crush, Mom, I Love My Mother, Joys Of Motherhood

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

source: William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

topic: Family, Mothers Day, God, Mom And Daughter, Special Mother

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

- Mike Wallace

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood, I Love My Mother, Special Mother

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

- Erich Fromm

topic: Love, Family, Marriage, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Mother, Buddhist, Children, Mother Love

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

- Rajneesh

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Mothers Day, God, Christian, Jewish Mother, Special Mother

You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.

- Strickland Gillilan

source: Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

topic: Mother, Parenting, Jewels, Mother Son, Special Mother

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Mom, Mother, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Mother, Children, Thinking, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

- Washington Irving

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Happy Children

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

- George Washington

topic: Mothers Day, Beautiful, Appreciation, Mother Son, Son And Daughter

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

- Gail Tsukiyama

source: Gail Tsukiyama (2003). “Dreaming Water: A Novel”, p.164, Macmillan

topic: Mom, Mother, Strong, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Baby, Just A Mom, Love Mom

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Love, Family, Mom, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Joys Of Motherhood, Special Mother

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Family, Happiness, Mom, Beacons, Just A Mom

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

- Robert Breault

topic: Mom, Prayer, Mother's Love, Motherhood And Love, Mothers Day Messages

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

topic: Family, Beautiful, Mom, Special Mother, Just A Mom

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

topic: Love, Family, Mom, Brothers And Sisters, Mother And Daughter

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

- Victor Hugo

topic: Mom, Mother, Baby, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Hope, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

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.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mom, Mother, Heart, Joys Of Motherhood, Slender

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

- Robert Browning

source: Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, I Love My Mother, Special Mother

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Mom, Mother, Powerful, I Love My Mother, Mom Knows Best

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

source: Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

topic: Mother, Unnecessary, Persons, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Just A Mom, Love Mom

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom, Yes Or No, Being A Mother

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

- Edgar Allan Poe

source: Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.20, Lulu.com

topic: Mothers Day, Angel, Heaven, I Love My Mother, Inspiring Motherhood

A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

- William Ross Wallace

source: J .K. Hoyt 'Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations' (1896) 402

topic: Mother, Men, Hands, Mother Country, Mother Proverbs

I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.

- Renita J. Weems

source: Renita J. Weems (1993). “I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings”, Innisfree Press

topic: Mom, Running, Mother, I Love My Mother, Your Mom

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

topic: Mom, Mother, Phones, Mother Love

In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

- N.K. Jemisin

source: N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.63, Hachette UK

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Benevolent, Mother And Child

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Life, Relationship, Family, Feline, Cute Life