Quotable Quotes for Moms

"All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
- Abraham Lincoln

"What the child says, he has heard at home."
- African Proverb

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
- George Washington

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."
- Lin Yutang

"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
- Henry Ward Beecher

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
- Jewish proverb

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
- Honore' de Balzac

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
- Author Unknown

"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 troubles thicken 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

"Blessed are the mothers of the earth. They combine the practical and the spiritual in to the workable ways of human life."
- William L. Stinger

Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart."
- German Proverb

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