Love For My Mother Quotes:

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

- Booker T. Washington

source: Booker T. Washington (2009). “Up from Slavery: An Autobiography”, p.46, The Floating Press

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Attention, Inspirational Mothers, Mom Knows Best

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

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

- Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

- Rudyard Kipling

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

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

- Sam Levenson

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

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

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

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

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

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

- Eddy Arnold

source: Song: MOTHER

topic: Mother, Mean, World, Mean The World To Me, Mother Day Poems

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

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

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

- James Joyce

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, I Love My Mother, Being A Mother

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

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

- Aristotle

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

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

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

- George Eliot

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting, I Love My Mother, Inspirational Motherhood

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 Sr.

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Special Mother, Just A Mom

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

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

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

- Alice Hoffman

source: FaceBook post by Alice Hoffman from May 10, 2015

topic: Daughter, Children, Secret, Mothers Day Messages, Love For My Mother

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

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

- Lin Yutang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

- Stevie Wonder

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

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

- Robert A. Heinlein

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

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

- Cammie McGovern

source: Cammie McGovern (2010). “Neighborhood Watch: A Novel”, p.184, Penguin

topic: Mother, Sacrifice, Said, Love For My Mother, Your Mum

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.

- Benjamin Alire Saenz

topic: Smile, Beautiful, My Smile, Love For My Mother

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

- Gracie Allen

topic: Mom, Mother, Justice, Mother's Day, Mother Flower

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

I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.

- Renita J. Weems

topic: Mom, Daughter, Mother, Mom And Daughter, Mom Daughter

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Being A Mother, Love Mom