Mothers Quotes

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me. - Gloria Vanderbilt

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. - Honore' de Balzac (1799-1850)

There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way. - Andrew Jackson

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. - Sophia Loren, from Women and Beauty

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

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother--which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician. - Sidney J. Harris

Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children. - Maxim Gorky

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. - W.R. Wallace

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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