Mothers Quotes

The first home was made when a woman, cradling in her loving arms a baby, crooned a lullaby. The home is a tryst - the place where we retire and shut the world out. - Elbert Hubbard

Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life. - David O. McKay

The best academy, a mother's knee. - James Russell Lowell

Mother's love grown by giving. - Charles Lamb

In all my efforts to learn to read, my mother shared fully my ambition and sympathized with me and aided me in every way she could. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother. - Booker T. Washington

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.  - Charlotte Gray

Mother - the essence of loveliness, the Beauty of a rose, the sparkle of a dewdrop and sunset's sweet repose. - Lydia M. Johnson

The bearing and the training of a child is woman's wisdom. - Lord Tennyson

The real secret: motherhood love, the thing that money can't buy. - Anna Crosby

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.  - Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife