Mothers Quotes

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

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

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us. - D H Lawrence

Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly... yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to. - Sophia Loren

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters. - George Herbert

Woman knows what man has long forgotten, that the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. - Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. - William Makepeace Thackeray

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. - Robert Frost