Mother love quotes and sayings.
1. To a child’s ear, “mother” is magic in any language.
- Arlene Benedict
2. 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
3. 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
4. A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.
5. Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
6. The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
7. There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
- Jill Churchill
8. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
9. I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
- Phyllis Diller
10. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.
- Mildred B. Vermont
11. Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.
12. A mother is she who can take the place of all others.
– Cardinal Mermillod
13. A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
14. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
- Chinese Proverbs
15. I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes.
- George Carlin
16. A mother who is really a mother is never free.
17. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
18. For mother’s sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.
19. My mother’s love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.
- Marc Chagall
20. No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.
- Sarah Josepha Hale
21. A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
- George Herbert
22. A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved.
- Kate Samperi
23. Who ran to help me when I fell, Or kissed the place to make it well? …. My mother.
- Ann Taylor
24. All I am I owe to my mother.
25. It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
26. The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie
27. Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
28. Mothers are all slightly insane.
- J. D. Salinger
29. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
30. Some 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
31. There’s a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there’s a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
- Roseanne Barr
32. Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
- William Somerset Maugham
33. Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.
- Maxim Gorky
34. If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
- Brigham Young
35. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
36. And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong – to belong to my mother. And in return – I wanted my mother to belong to me.
