Reflections Concerning Mothers And Motherhood Quotes

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1.  Abraham Lincoln-"No man is poor who has had a godly mother."-
2. Honore' de Balzac-"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."-
3. Oliver Wendell Holmes-"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret  hope outlives them all."
4. Kate Samperi- "Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children.  Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserves to be  loved."
5. Elizabeth Stone-"Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
6. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis-"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much."
7. Judith Martin- Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers-
8. Hamilton Wright Mabie- "The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best."
9. Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons- "Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings  boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud   or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own."
10. Jewish Proverb-"A mother understands what a child does not say."
11. Erich Fromm -"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother,  and to become fully independent."
12. Cardinal Mermillod-"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."
13. Lin Yü-tang-"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
14. Pope Paul VI -"Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the Promised Land. She prepares a world she will not see."
15. Ellen Key- "The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother."
16. Kate Douglas Wiggin-"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, but  only one mother in the whole world."