Learn Through Quotations

“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.”

“A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”

“The phrase 'working mother' is redundant.”

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.”

“If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

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

“If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.”

“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.”

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”

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

“He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.”

“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.”

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”

“Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime.”

“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.”

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

“Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.”

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

“Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.”

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”

“The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.”

“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.”