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A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.
Sep 10, 2025
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.
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.
[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.
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
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.
Most mothers kiss and scold together.
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.
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.
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.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
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 mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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.
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.
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
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.
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.
That best academy, a mother's knee.
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.
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.
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.