Quotes about Mothers : Onegreetingdaily

Quotes about Mothers  

Charlotte Gray:
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.

George Eliot:
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

Napoleon Bonaparte: 
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

Elizabeth Stone: Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Aristotle:
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Washington Irving: 
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 troubles thicken 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.

Abraham Lincoln:
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.

Henry Ward Beecher: 
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

George Washington:
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

James Russell Lowell:
That best academy, a mother's knee.

Exodus 
"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you."

Isaiah 
"As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem."

2 Timothy
"I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also."

1 Thessalonians
"As apostles of Christ we could have been a burden to you, but we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children."