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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.
Sep 10, 2025
Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers
Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.
This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)
It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Most mothers kiss and scold together.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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.
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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.
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my 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.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.
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.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a 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.
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.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.