Mother and Motherhood

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

O mother what have I left out O mother what have I forgotten

Every success is the mother of countless others.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Motherhood all love begins and ends there.

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Only mothers can think of the future—because they give birth to it in their children.

I have given suck, and know How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, “Oh God,” and my father answering cozily from the silo, “Were you calling me, dear?"

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing / A potent spell. All women alike / Fight fiercely for a child.

FEW MISFORTUNES CAN BEFALL A BOY WHICH BRING WORSE CONSEQUENCES THAN TO HAVE A REALLY AFFECTIONATE MOTHER.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don’t like her daughter to resemble her in.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undrawn your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.