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Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.
Sep 29, 2025
You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.
Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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.
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.
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.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
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.
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.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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.
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
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.