quotations about mothers
You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men -- from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
"The Professor at the Breakfast Table", Atlantic Monthly, May 1859
A mother's body remembers her babies -- the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has its own entreaties to body and soul.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The Poisonwood Bible
A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
HOSEA BALLOU
Edge-Tools of Speech
Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.
JOHN STEINBECK
East of Eden
In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.
JAMES BALDWIN
Notes of a Native Son
My happiest childhood memories are of times in our backyard. My mother had an old clothesline that hung out in front. It seemed like it stretched a mile long, and I loved sitting in the sun while she hung clothes.
TRACI LORDS
Underneath It All
But all mothers are a part of Mother Nature, and though the infant life may break from its individual parent, it never escapes the shrouding protection of a natural environment.
NORTHROP FRYE
Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
Every man is privileged to believe all his life that his own mother is the best and dearest that a child ever had.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
"Our Mothers", Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
MARGARET MEAD
attributed, Just Like Mum Says: A Book of Mum's Wit
We mothers are a testing ground for our children.
RUBY GWIN
A Day That Would End Tearing At Your Heart
All mothers are like the Mother Goddess.... Protector, kisser of wounds, disciplinarian. The divine mother is the abode of dharma, or righteousness.
ALEXANDRA GRAY
The Yoga Teacher
I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?
SPENCER W. KIMBALL
The Miracle of Forgiveness
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Vanity Fair
Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.
GELETT BURGESS
The Maxims of Methuselah
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
In the presence of a mother, we feel that our childhood has not all departed.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust