Mothers

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

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

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along. – Margaret Culkin Banning

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. – Spanish Proverb

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