Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Mothers

Mothers

All mothers are physically handicapped. They have only two hands.--Anonymous (The Best of Bits and Pieces)
The angels ... singing unto one another,
Can find among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of "mother"--Edgar Allen Poe (To My Mother)
Did you ever meet a mother who's complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither.--Maureen Lipman (Thank You for Having Me)
Don't aim to be an earthly saint, with eyes fixed on a star,
Just try to be the fellow that your Mother thinks you are.--Will S. Adkin
Don't turn a small problem into a big problem--say yes to your mother.--Sally Berger
Education is the mental railway, beginning at birth and running on to eternity. No hand can lay it in the right direction but the hand of a mother.--Mrs. H. O. Ward
God could not be everywhere, so He made mothers.--Jewish Proverb
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.--Honoré de Balzac
I love old mothers--mothers with white hair
And kindly eyes, and lips grown softly sweet
With murmured blessings over sleeping babes.--Charles S. Ross
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.--Eleanor Roosevelt (Today's Health, Oct. 1966)
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.--Charles Dickens
In the years since I began following the ways of my grandmothers I have come to value the teachings, stories, and daily examples of living which they shared with me. I pity the younger girls f the future who will miss out on meeting some of these fine old women.--Beverly Hungry Wolf
It's easy to pick children whose mothers are good housekeepers; they are usually found in other yards.--Anonymous
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.--Kate Douglas Wiggin (in The Treasure Chest ed. by Wallis)
The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.--Hannah Whitall Smith
A mother is never cocky or proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.--Mary Kay Blakeley ("The Pros and Cons of Motherhood" in Pulling Our Own Strings ed. by Blakeley and Kaufman)
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
A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.--Mrs. H. O. Ward
My mother gave me a bumblebee pin when I started work. She said: "Aerodynamically, bees shouldn't be able to fly. But they do. Remember that."--Jill E. Barad
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.--Mark Twain
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.--Florida Scott-Maxwell
Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before.--Ellen Greene
There is a point where you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends. It doesn't happen for everyone--but it did for Mom and me.--Jamie Lee Curtis