Inspirational Mothers Quotes

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. - Victor Hugo

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. - Cardinal Mermillod

My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me. - Thomas A Edison

Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness...She has never stood between me and my life, never tried to hold me too tightly, always let me go free... - Noel Coward

I think my life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. - George Eliot

It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others. - Paula Giddings

She tried in every way to understand me, and she succeeded. It was this deep, loving understanding as long as she lived that more than anything else helped and sustained me on my way to success. - Mae West

She was the best of all mothers, to whom I owe endless gratitude.  - Thomas Carlyle

Children and mothers never truly part - Bound in the beating of each other's heart. - Charlotte Gray

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon