Mother Quotes
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” ~Milton Berle
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” ~Victor Hugo
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” ~William Makepeace Thackeray
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.’ ~Irish Proverb
“God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.” ~Rudyard Kipling
“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” ~Aristotle
“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.” ~Agatha Christie
“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
“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” ~Joseph Stefano
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” ~Sophocles
“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
“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