Wonderful Mother Quotes:

Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers.

- Jean Marzollo

source: Jean Marzollo (1991). “Your Maternity Leave”, Poseidon Press

topic: Mother, Wonderful, Wonderful 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

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

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Mom, Mother, Class, Empowering Women, Being A Mother

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

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

- Jill Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Perfect, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

- Lin Yutang

topic: Mother, Parenting, Rights, Inspirational Mom, Inspirational Motherhood

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

- Theodore Hesburgh

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Family, Marriage Advice

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

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

source: Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.11

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood, Special Mother

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

- Sam Levenson

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Mom, Being A Mother, Inspirational Mom

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

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Love, Beautiful, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Being A Mother

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Mom, Mother, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Mothers Day, God, Christian, Jewish Mother, Special 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 Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

- Bob Hope

topic: Mothers Day, Mean, Motherhood, Mother Proverbs, Wonderful Mother

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

source: Measure of my Days (1968) p. 16

topic: Mother, Children, Age, Middle Aged, Being A Mother

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

- William Feather

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Inspirational Motherhood, Inspirational Mothers

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

- Oscar Wilde

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

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

- Peter De Vries

topic: Funny, Mom, Mother, Special Mother, Just A Mom

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Success, Mom, Mother, Just A Mom, Inspirational Mom

‎"The earth is so beautiful. We are beautiful also. We can allow ourselves to walk mindfully, touching the earth, our wonderful mother, with each step. We don't need to wish our friends, 'Peace be with you.' Peace is already with them. We only need to help them cultivate the habit of touching peace in each moment."-

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

topic: Beautiful, Mother, Touching, Wonderful Mother

She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that's why this [award] is for her. She's a wonderful mother.

- Elisabeth Moss

topic: Mom, Mother, Believe, Proud Of Me, Wonderful Mother

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

- Lou Gehrig

source: Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

topic: Daughter, Mother, Law, Squabbles, Mother In Law