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Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!
Sep 10, 2025
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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!
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.
MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
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.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
Men are what their mothers made them.
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
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.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
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.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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.
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.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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.