MOTHER QUOTES
quotations about mothers
For women who feel that their duties as mothers are a burden or hindrance, motherhood has been suggested to be another cause of women's subordination, tying women to their homes and children when they would rather join the labour force. Yet, neither the desire for a professional extradomestic career nor the desire to remain home to raise children (and cook and clean) are "natural" for women.
JOY ADAPON
Culinary Art and Anthropology
Happy he
With such a mother! faith in womankind
Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high
Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall,
He shall not blind his soul with clay.
ALFRED TENNYSON
The Princess
Moms. Because not all superheroes wear capes.
ANONYMOUS
What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?
HONORE DE BALZAC
Letters of Two Brides
Mother is food; she is love; she is warmth; she is earth.
ERICH FROMM
The Sane Society
Moms are, in my opinion, the wonders of the universe. They can leap tall buildings in a single bound, they can go where no person has gone before, and they can somehow get toddlers to eat. The problem is that mothers are also some of the most stressed people on the planet. There's just so much to do and not enough of them.
KEVIN LEMAN
What a Difference a Mom Makes
There is no occupancy limit on a mother's heart. It expands with each child, whether you gave birth to that child or not--you just add another room.
HEATHER LENDE
Woman's Day, May 2011
If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
If evolution works, how come mothers still have only two hands?
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.
ELIZABETH FORSYTHE HAILEY
A Woman of Independent Means
Mothers are like time bombs inside their daughters. They're going to blow up sooner or later.
ASLI PERKER
Soufflé
Where there is a mother in the house, matters speed well.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
BO JACKSON
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.
OSCAR WILDE
The Importance of Being Earnest
A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age, and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Our mothers understand us so well! Speech and companionship with them are so easy, so unobstructed by the thousand teasing barriers that bar soul from eager soul! To walk and talk with them is like slipping on an old coat. To hear their voices is like the shake of music in a sober evening hush.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
"Our Mothers", Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.
ROBERT FULGHUM
It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
There is no love so lasting, so strong, so disinterested, so unselfish, so devoted as that first and purest of all loves, a mother's love. It begins with your birth, and ends with her death. It will follow you through childhood, youth, and manhood, from the cradle to the grave--if not in reality, in memory; it will stimulate you to every noble and heroic action you may contemplate or do, and deter you from many an evil one. The memory of it alone will sweeten many a cup of sorrow in after years, lighten many an hour of darkness, and the soft music of her voice in gentle accents you will oft hear years after she, perhaps, is no more. You may lose everything in this world, and a mother's love will alone stick by you; you may go down, down to the lowest depths of degradation, be steeped in crime and sin, an outcast from your fellow beings, when, at the eleventh hour, the memory of your mother and her undying love may come like a golden cloud, and with all its early strength and warmth, may be the means of wresting you from the very jaws of hell. The blessing of having had a good and a kind mother is one blessing unequalled, I may say, by any other on earth, and your heart will oft turn with the tenderest love to the years when you knew it, to the scenes where you felt it, long, long after her sweet and gentle voice is hushed in the cold grave. Boys and girls, youths and maidens, when about to sin, remember your mother, and break not her fond heart.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On a Mother's Love", Short Essays
The world, as we tread its puzzling paths, shows many profiles and glimpses of wonder and loveliness; many shapes and symbols to entrance and astound. Yet it will offer us nothing more beautiful than our mother's face; no memory more dear than her encircling tenderness. The mountain tops of her love rise as high in ether as any sun-stained alp. Lakes are no deeper and no purer blue than her bottomless charity. We need not fare further than her immortal eyes to know that life is good.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
"Our Mothers", Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help, and thus we are able to recapitulate in the one word motherliness that which we have developed as the characteristic value of woman. Only, the motherliness must be that which does not remain within the narrow circle of blood relations or of personal friends; but in accordance with the model of the Mother of Mercy, it must have its root in universal divine love for all who are there, belabored and burdened.
EDITH STEIN
The Significance of Woman's Intrinsic Value in National Life