Quotes on Mother Proverbs

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

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

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

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

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

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

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

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.