Lovely Quotes for Moms

Favorite Quotes About Mothers

Mother by Mary Cassatt 

 

"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 who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken 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."
-- Washington Irving

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."
-- Lin Yutang

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
-William Makepeace Thackeray

"To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language."
-Arlene Benedict

"No influence is so powerful as that of the mother."
-Sarah Josepha Hale

"A mother understands what a child does not say."
-Jewish proverb

"No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love."
-Edwin Chapin

"Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all."
-Katherine Butler Hathaway

"Mothers can look through a child's eyes and see tomorrow.
"- Reed Markham

"Great mothers build bridges instead of walls."
- Reed Markham

"The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist."
-Theodore Roosevelt

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."
-- George Washington (1732-1799)

"A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters."
-George Herbert

"When you were small and just a touch away, I covered you with blankets against the cold night air. But now that you are tall and out of reach, I fold my hands and cover you with prayer."
-Dona Maddux Cooper

"Make a memory with your children, spend some time to show you care; toys and trinkets can't replace those precious moments that you share."
-Elaine Hardt

"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."
-Strickland Gillilan

"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."
-Sophocles

"My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for--someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me."
-Thomas A. Edison

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
-Oprah Winfrey

"Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother"
-Ann Taylor

"God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers."
-Jewish Proverb

"Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind."
-Kahlil Gibran

"Children and mothers never truly part - Bound in the beating of each other's heart."
-Charlotte Gray