Mothers Quotes

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.  - George Bernard Shaw

There was never a great man who had not a great mother. - Olive Schreiner

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mother’s names. - Alice Walker

Motherhood is the greatest potential influence in human society. Her caress first awakens in the child a sense of security; her kiss the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world. Thus in infancy and childhood she implants ever-directing and restraining influences that remain through life. - David 0. McKay

I affirm my profound belief that God's greatest creation is womanhood. I also believe that there is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.  - James E. Faust

The older I become, the more I think about my mother. - Ingmar Bergman

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

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

Mother's Day is in honor of the best Mother who ever lived - the Mother of your heart. - Anna Jarvis

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