Learn Through Quotations

“Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.”

“Mother-in-law: a woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.”

“I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.”

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”

“If I was damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o' mine, O mother o'mine.”

“No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.”

“The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.”

“What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?”

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all.”

“One lamp - thy mother's love - amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy - as it was lit and lent thee here.”

“What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights.”

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”

“You will always be your child's favourite toy.”

“Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”

“A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided.”

“Because I feel that in the heavens above The angels, whispering one to another, Can find among their burning tears of love, None so devotional as that of 'Mother,' Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you, You who are more than mother unto me.”

“If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.”

“I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still The deepest impressed on my heart.”

“Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.”

“Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart. ”

“The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.”

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.”

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”