A Mother’s Love: Inspiring Quotations

• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. –Rajneesh

• God could not be everywhere, so therefore he made mothers. –Jewish Proverb

• Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. –Robert Browning

• Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed. –Linda Wooten

• A Mother's love is something
  that no one can explain,
  It is made of deep devotion
  and of sacrifice and pain,
  It is endless and unselfish
  and enduring come what may
  For nothing can destroy it
  or take that love away –Helen Steiner Rice

• My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters. –Michelle Obama

• The hand that rocks the cradle
  Is the hand that rules the world –What Rules the World

• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. –Victor Hugo

• I cannot forget my mother. Though not as sturdy as others, she is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely. –Renita Weems

• A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. –Dorothy Canfield Fisher

• My mom is literally a part of me. You can't say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. –Carrie Latet

• I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine—she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. –Terri Guillemets

• The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. –Jill Churchill, O Magazine, May 2003

• My mother is a woman who speaks with her life as much as with her tongue. –Kesaya E. Noda

• The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. –Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003

• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. –Sophia Loren

• My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind. –Michael Jordan

• 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

• [A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. –Emily Dickinson

• More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, responsible. –Tillie Olsen

• Who ran to help me when I fell,
  And would some pretty story tell,
  Or kiss the place to make it well?
  My Mother –Ann Taylor

• A mother's heart is always with her children. –Proverb

• You never get over being a child, long as you have a mother to go to. –Sarah Orne Jewett

• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother –Abraham Lincoln

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