QUOTES

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." - Jewish proverb      The sweetest sounds to mortals given      Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.      ~William Goldsmith Brown  "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." - Abraham Lincoln   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 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 Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.  ~Mildred B. Vermont A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.  ~Peter De Vries The phrase "working mother" is redundant.  ~Jane Sellman 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 If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.  ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth) I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.  ~Abraham Lincoln The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. - H.W. Beecher Let France have good Mothers, and she will have good sons. - Napoleon I My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily of chapters of the bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but the best part of my taste for literature. - John Ruskin All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Lincoln A father may turn his back on his child; brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies; husbands may desert their wives and wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. - Washington Irving Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. -T. DeWitt Talmage 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 A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.  ~Author Unknown Sweater, n.:  garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.  ~Ambrose Bierce Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness.  It's the men who are discriminated against.  They can't bear children.  And no one's likely to do anything about that.  ~Golda Meir 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 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 He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. ~William Shakespeare An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.  ~Spanish Proverb She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.  ~Margaret Culkin Banning 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 Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand. ~Helen Hunt Jackson Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.  ~Aristotle Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.  ~John Lancaster Spalding 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 What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?  ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson 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 The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. ~Author Unknown Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.  ~Terri Guillemets [A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.  ~Emily Dickinson 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 Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.  ~Lisa Alther Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.  ~Beverly Jones