Mothers Quotes

It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that sees through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word.  - Erma Bombeck

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings. - Erica Jong

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

A woman's love is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, and by its weakness overcomes. - Lowell

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

In the man whose childhood has known caresses, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. - George Eliot

So for the mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Womanliness means only motherhood; all love begins and ends there. - Robert Browning

Stories first heard at a mother's knee are never wholly forgotten - a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.  - Giovanni Ruffini

My mother never gave up on me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back. - Denzel Washington