Mother Quotes for Scrapbooks
Who takes the child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart.
--Danish Proverb
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.
No man does. That’s his.
--Oscar Wilde
Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
--Kahil Gibran
It was from you that I first learned to think, to feel, to imagine, to believe.
--John Sterling
I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.
--Marguerite Duras
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
--Jewish Proverb
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
--Victor Hugo
A mother’s love perceives no impossibilities.
--Cornelia Paddock
A mother understands what a child does not say.
--Jewish proverb
Children outgrow everything but Mommy’s heart
--Unknown
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
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
--Abraham Lincoln
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother!
--Lin Yutang
The phrase “working mother” is redundant.
--Jane Sellman
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall:
A mother’s secret love outlives them all.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Of course I can do anything. I’m a mother.
--Unknown
It is the wise mother who gives her child roots and wings.
----Chinese proverb
Her children arise up, and call her blessed.
Bible, Proverbs 31:28
A mother is she who can take the place of all
others but whose place no one else can take.
--Cardinal Mermillod
In mothering, if you do it right, you work yourself out of a job.
--Karen H. Tyler
A daughter is just a little girl who grows up to be a friend
--Anonymous
