(62 quotes found)
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
Oscar Wilde
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
Honore de Balzac
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”
Irish Proverb
“Motherhood is priced of God, at price no man may dare to lessen or misunderstand.”
Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson
“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”
Marion C. Garretty
“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
“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
“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
Albert Schweitzer
“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
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