Quotes About Mothers

To me, my mother is the greatest gift God has given me and everything I am today is because of her faith in me. I am sure that all of you hold your mother in great esteem too and have memories of wonderful times spent together on warm afternoons sipping lemonade or on cold winter mornings, drinking cups of hot chocolate, apart from plenty of others. Here are a few quotes on mothers, some of which talk about a mother’s heart, while others try and understand a mother and child relationship. Whatever the quote, they are all about mothers.

Quotes about Mothers

"My mother is a poem

I'll never be able to write,

though everything I write

is a poem to my mother." - Sharon Doubiago

"Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,

Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,

Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,

But only one mother the wide world over." - George Cooper

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

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." - H.W. Beecher

"Mothers are the necessity of invention." - Bill Watterson

"There's nothing like a mama-hug." - Adabella Radici

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

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

"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

"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

"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 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." - Washington Irving

"A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking." - Helen Rice

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

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." - Honore' de Balzac

"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success." - Sigmund Freud

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." - Cardinal Mermillod

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly." - Ambrose Bierce

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." - Tenneva Jordan

"Some mothers 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 sweetest sounds to mortals given are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven." - William Goldsmith Brown

"My mom is a never ending 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

"Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease." - Lisa Alther

"The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best." - Hamilton Wright Mabie

"The angels, whispering to one another can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of Mother." - Edgar Allen Poe

"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 mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved." - Kate Samperi

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." - Erich Fromm

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

"Mother's love grows by giving." - Charles Lamb

"I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still The deepest impressed on my heart." - Eliza Cook

"I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely." - Renita Weems

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not." - James Joyce

"My mom is literally a part of me. You can't say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors." - Carrie Latet

"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

"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

"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement." - Florida Scott-Maxwell

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