Motherhood And Love Quotes:

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

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

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

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Family, Friday, Mother, Best Memories, Deposits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

- Rudyard Kipling

source: 'The Light That Failed' (1891) dedication

topic: Mothers Day, Prayer, Sea, Mother Day Poems, Motherhood And Love

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Funny, Family, Mom, Love Mom, Young Mother

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Ambrose Bierce

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

[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

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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