Inspirational Mothers Quotes

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. - Mildred B. Vermont

When you were small and just a touch away, I covered you with blankets against the cold night air. But now that you are tall and out of reach, I fold my hands and cover you with prayer. - Dona Maddux Cooper

You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a Mother who read to me. - Strickland Gillilan

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. - Mark Twain

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. - Sophocles

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind. - Kahlil Gibran

To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict

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