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.
~Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPIM
Mothers Quotes SMS
Mothers Quotes SMS
I cannot forget my mother she is
I cannot forget my mother. Though not as sturdy as others, s[S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely. ~Renita WeemsPIM
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle
A mans work is from sun to
A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done. ~Author Unknown
Mother that was the bank where
Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt TalmageCOE; MAC
The desolation and terror of for the
The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. ~Francis ThompsonMAC
All mothers are working mothers author unknown
All mothers are working mothers. ~Author Unknown
One of the very few reasons i
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands – bare hands – and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands – a kind of mad courage. ~Robert FulghumPIM
My mother is a poem ill never
My mother is a poem
I’ll never be able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my mother.
~Sharon DoubiagoPIM
The tie which links mother and child
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. ~Washington IrvingPIM
If evolution really works how come mothers
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton BerlePIM
Mother the ribbons of your love are
Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart. ~Author Unknown
A moms hug lasts long after she
A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go. ~Author Unknown
With what price we pay for the
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. ~Isadora DuncanMAC
No painters brush nor poets pen in
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 UnknownPIM
She never quite leaves her children at
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along. ~Margaret Culkin BanningPIM
All women become like their mothers that
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
Its not easy being a mother if
It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. ~From the television show The Golden GirlsFCN
There is an instinct in a woman
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child – and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
What are raphaels madonnas but the shadow
What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ~Thomas Wentworth HigginsonCOE
The moment a child is born the
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~RajneeshMAC; PIM
Every beetle is a gazelle in the
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish ProverbPIM
Sweater n garment worn by child when
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce
A mothers happiness is like a beacon
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~Honoré de BalzacPIM
A mother is the truest friend we
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 IrvingPIM
The real religion of the world comes
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 HolmesCOE
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect everything
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl StreepMAC
The precursor of the mirror is mothers
The precursor of the mirror is the mother’s face. ~D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971RC
Mothers love grows by giving charles lamb
Mother’s love grows by giving. ~Charles LambPIM
No one in the world can take
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 TrumanPIM
Grown dont mean nothing to a mother
Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
Biology is the least of what makes
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey
Most of all the other beautiful things
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends – but only one mother in the whole world. ~Kate Douglas WigginPIM
Mother is the name for god in
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace ThackerayCOE
Theres nothing like a mama hug terri guillemets
There’s nothing like a mama-hug. ~Terri Guillemets
Mothers love is peace it need not
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~Erich FrommPIM
A suburban mothers role is to deliver
A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De VriesMAC; CUL; PIM
If you have a mom there is
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A mother is a person who seeing
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 JordanPIM
That best academy a mothers knee james
That best academy, a mother’s knee. ~James Russell LowellPIM
Perhaps we are given a mom that
Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A father may turn his back on
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. ~Washington Irving
Dont ever tell the mother of a
Don’t ever tell the mother of a newborn that her baby’s smile is just gas. ~Jill WoodhullTPV,UWP, QE jill woodhull – Variants: The baby broke into a magnificent smile. And don’t you even dare tell me it’s gas.People who say that are just haters. Ye of little faith. Nicole Caccavo Kear, amomamok.blogspot.com/2012/05/lost-in-translation.html; Sort of like when they say a baby’s smile is just gas. A Mommy can tell the difference! Myree, babyfit.sparkpeople.com/archive_posts.asp?imBoard=162&imparent=6181273; I hate when people say that a baby’s smile is just gas. Nori, seaweed-girl.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. ~James JoycePIM
Thou art thy mothers glass and she
Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William ShakespeareCOE
I remember my mothers prayers and they
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham LincolnPIM
Mother is a verb not noun proverb
Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
Youth fades love droops the leaves of
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendell HolmesPIM
Mother love is the fuel that enables
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul