Quotes about Mothers

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"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."- Agatha Christie

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow."- Maya Angelou

"Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort."- John Lancaster Spalding

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"- Milton Berle

"No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love."- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see."- Pope Paul VI

"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."- Erma Bombeck

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."- Rudyard Kipling

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary."- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."- Abraham Lincoln

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."- Robert Browning

"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

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."- James Joyce

"Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope."- Charles Dickens

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."- Erich Fromm

"Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."- Lin Yutang

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."- William Makepeace Thackeray

"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in."- Lauryn Hill

"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

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