Sentimental Mother Quotes:

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 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

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

- Milton Berle

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

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 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

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

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

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

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

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

- Gaspard Mermillod

topic: Relationship, Mother, Joys Of Motherhood, Just A Mom, Being A 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

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

- Rudyard Kipling

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

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Mother, Parenting, Reality, Just A Mom, Inspirational Mothers

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

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

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

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

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

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.

- Toni Morrison

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

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

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

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

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Love, Mom, Mother, Mom And Child, Mother And Baby

Men are what their mothers made them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Mom, Mother, Lawyer, Sentimental Mother

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

- Lin Yutang

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

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

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

source: "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Volume II,

topic: Happiness, Smile, Mom, Inspirational Pregnancy, Mother's Love

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

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Mom, Mother, Growing Up, Mother Care, Political Humor

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

- Phyllis McGinley

topic: Mom, Mother, Hands, Ripe Fruit, Sentimental Mother

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Alive, Mother's Day, Mother Day Poems

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