Quotes About Mothers
Of all the rights of women,
the greatest is to be a mother....Lin Yutang.
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.
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother.
It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still
but children with play things....F. H. Bradley.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom....Henry Ward Beecher.
By and large, mothers and housewives
are the only workers who do not have regular time off.
They are the great vacationless class....Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
All that I am or ever hope to be,
I owe to my angel Mother....Abraham Lincoln.
Honor your Father and Mother. That it may be well with you,
and that you may live long on the earth....Ephesians 6:2-3.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life....Abraham Lincoln.
Let your Father and your Mother be glad,
and let her rejoice who gave birth to you....Proverbs 23:25.
Richer than Gold
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.
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.
Judicious mothers will always keep in mind, that
they are the first book read, and the last put aside,
in every child's library....C. Lenox Redmond.
When a Father takes the child by the hand,
he takes the Mother by the Heart....
The most important thing a father can do
for his children is to love their mother....David O. McKay.
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.....Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding
mothers, but it is love just the same, and
most mothers kiss and scold together....Pearl S. Buck.
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....Erich Fromm.
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