Mother...

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.  ~Mildred B. Vermont

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.  ~Rajneesh



I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.  ~Abraham Lincoln

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.  ~Honoré de Balzac

All women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy.  No man does.  That's his.  ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

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.  ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?  ~Milton Berle

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.  ~Aristotle

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect.  Everything gets reduced to essentials.  ~Meryl Streep

The sweetest sounds to mortals given. Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown

My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being.  I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.  ~Graycie Harmon

I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.  ~Adabella Radici

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.  ~Emily Dickinson

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.  ~Victor Hugo

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother.  A child is a child.  They get bigger, older, but grown?  What's that suppose to mean?  In my heart it don't mean a thing.  ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.  ~Honoré de Balzac

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.  ~Washington Irving

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.  ~Robert Brault

My mother is a poem, I'll never be able to write, though everything I write, is a poem to my mother. ~Sharon Doubiago

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.  ~George Herbert

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.  ~T. DeWitt Talmage

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

A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is."  ~Keith L. Brooks

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, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.  ~Kate Douglas Wiggin

It's not easy being a mother.  If it were easy, fathers would do it.  ~From the television show The Golden Girls

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.  ~Abraham Lincoln

A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.  ~Author Unknown

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.  ~Harry Truman

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.  ~Jewish Proverb

The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks.  ~Carrie Latet

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

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.  ~Irish Proverb