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Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.
Sep 10, 2025
In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.
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.
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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.
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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.
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.
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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.
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.
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
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.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
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.
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.
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.
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.
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
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.
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.
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.