May
A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.
~Author Unknown
No painter’s brush, nor poet’s pen,
in justice to her fame
Has ever reached half high enough
to write a mother’s name. ~Author Unknown
Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
~T. DeWitt Talmage
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln
The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room. ~Henry Ward Beecher
A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy,
an extension of herself. And mothers are their daughters’ role model,their biological
and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart
- a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcomein it,
and hospitable accommodation. ~Mark Twain
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come bytwos and threes,
by dozens and hundreds. Plenty ofroses, stars, sunsets, rainbows,
brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends -
but only one mother in the whole world. ~Kate Douglas Wiggin
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, “where mother is.”
~Keith L. Brooks
My mother is a poem I’ll never be able to write,
though everything I write is a poem to my mother. ~Sharon Doubiago
I miss thee, my Mother!
Thy image is still the deepest impressed on my heart. ~Eliza Cook
Mother’s love grows by giving. ~Charles Lamb
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert
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
That best academy, a mother’s knee. ~James Russell Lowell
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
~Beverly Jones
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
~Victor Hugo
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. ~Washington Irving
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
~Marion C. Garretty
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
~Emily Dickinson
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle
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, Women and Beauty
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which
you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac
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
Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness.
It’s the men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children.
And no one’s likely to do anything about that. ~Golda Meir
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln
A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once,
and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries
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
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field,
since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont
A mother understands what a child does not say ~Jewish Proverb
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be-
I had a mother who read to me. ~Gillilan Strickland
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it!
~Chinese proverb
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts
to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. ~James Fenton
“The commonest fallacy among women is that
simply having children makes one a mother -which is as absurd
as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.”- Sydney Harris
