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Mothers Proverbs



Sayings about Mothers

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~ Jewish Proverb

A mother understands what a child does not say. ~ Jewish Proverbs

He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin. ~ English Proverbs

Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~ Saying

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~ Spanish Proverbs

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

A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~ Portuguese Proverbs

Quotations about Mothers

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Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember, you’re the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside. ~ Rachel Wolchin

The mother of boys work son-up to son-down. ~ Author Unknown

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same — and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~ Pearl S. Buck

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~ Oprah Winfrey

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~ Abraham Lincoln

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ~ Oscar Wilde

A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, “where mother is.” ~ Keith L. Brooks

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. ~ Lisa Alther

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ~ Emily Dickinson

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The precursor of the mirror is the mother’s face. ~ D.W. Winnicott

I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely. ~ Renita Weems

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. ~ Harry Truman

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. ~ Lord Langdale

Mother’s love grows by giving. ~ Charles Lamb

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, comrades and friends — but only one mother in the whole world. ~ Kate Douglas Wiggin

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

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do. ~ Author Unknown

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. ~ Beverly Jones

A mother who is really a mother is never free. ~ Honore De Balzac

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~ Marion C. Garretty,

A mother’s heart is a patchwork of love. ~ Author Unknown

A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go. ~ Author Unknown

A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done. ~ Author Unknown

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~ Milton Berle

A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. ~ George Eliot

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ~ Mark Twain

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~ Aristotle

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ~ Mark Twain

A mother’s heart is always with her children. ~ Author Unknown

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

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it. ~ Jules Michelet

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. ~ Washington Irving

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~ Erich Fromm

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~ George Herbert

Mother is the name for God on the lips and in the hearts of little children. ~ William M. Thackeray

That best academy, a mother’s knee. ~ James Russell Lowell

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. ~ Rajneesh

Mother — that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~ T. DeWitt Talmage

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed. ~ Linda Wooten

Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother. ~ Gregory Nunn

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

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

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it’s too late to let her know he sees it. ~ William Dean Howells

Mother weaves her loving art and leaves her magic in our hearts. ~ Author Unknown

Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart. ~ Author Unknown

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. ~ Angela Carter

There was never a great man who had not a great mother. ~ Olive Schreiner

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~ Mildred B. Vermont

All mothers are working mothers. ~ Author Unknown

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~ Honoré de Balzac

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. ~ Ann Oakley

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. ~ Isadora Duncan

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~ Victor Hugo

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

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