Words of Wisdom:
Famous Quotes About Mothers

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
- Aristotle

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

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

That best academy, a mother's knee.
- James Russell Lowell

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
- Marion C. Garretty

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
- Oprah Winfrey

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
- Spanish Proverb

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If you become a monk, then you will end up as Pope.' Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso.
- Pablo Picasso

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.
- Leo Durocher

My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.
- Groucho Marx

There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and its mother's age.
- Dr. Benjamin Spock