Quotes on Mothers

The noblest calling in the world is that of mother. True motherhood is the most
beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a
masterpiece or who can write a book that will influence millions deserves the
plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of
healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will be exerting an
 influence throughout the ages long after painting shall have faded, and books
 and statues shall have been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give.
--David 0. McKay

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
--Abraham Lincoln


"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 troubles thicken 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."
~Washington Irving


"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw.
All I am I owe to my mother.
I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual
and physical education I received from her."
-- George Washington


"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
-- Theodore Hesburgh

"A wise woman once said to me: 'There are only two lasting bequests we can
hope to give our children.
One of these is roots; the other, wings."
-- Hodding Carter

"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes,
by dozens and hundreds.
 Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters,

aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world." 

 Kate Douglas Wiggin

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
~Irish Proverb

A mother understands what a child does not say.
`Jewish Proverb

"You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic -

and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead

necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paper-lace Mother's 
Day card and school report since day one."
 ~Pam Brown

"There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast."
 Erma Bombeck

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."

George Eliot

"Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust
and stability. She is their earth.

She is the one they can count on for the things that matter most of all.

She is their food and their bed and the extra blanket when it grows cold in the night;
 she is their warmth and their health and their shelter; she is the one they want to be
near when they cry. She is the only person in the whole world in a whole lifetime
 who can be these things to her children. There is no substitute for her.

Somehow even her clothes feel

different to her children's hands from anybody else's clothes.

Only to touch her skirt or her sleeve makes a troubled child feel better."
Katharine Butler Hathaway

"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 troubles thicken 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."

Washington Irving

Who ran to help me when I fell,

And would some pretty story tell,

Or kiss the place to make it well?

My Mother.
~Ann Taylor

Images of Mother
4 Years of Age-My Mommy can do anything!
   8 Years of Age-My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot!
 12 Years of Age-My Mother doesn't really know quite everything.
 14 Years of Age-Naturally, Mother doesn't know that, either.
 16 Years of Age-Mother? She's hopelessly old-fashioned.
 18 Years of Age-That old woman? She's way out of date!
 25 Years of Age-Well, she might know a little bit about it.
 35 Years of Age-Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion.
 45 Years of Age-Wonder what Mom would have thought about it?
 65 Years of Age-Wish I could talk it over with Mom.


A mother's love is like a circle. 
It has no beginning and no ending.
It keeps going around and around ever expanding, touching 
everyone who comes in contact with it.
Engulfing them like the morning's mist, warming them like the noontime sun 
and covering them like a blanket of evening stars. 
A mother's love is like a circle. 
It has no beginning and no ending.

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.
  ~Tenneva Jordan