(62 quotes found)
“Without the upbringing I received from my Mother, I am not the good and decent person I am today. Thanks, Mom!”
Mike McMillan
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
Oprah Winfrey
“A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”
Emily Dickinson
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
Honore de Balzac
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“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
“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.”
“For the hand that rocks the cradle - Is the hand that rules the world”
William Ross Wallace
“When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”
Nancy Friday
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother”
Abraham Lincoln