Mother Quotes - 4

1. "Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial."
-- Sydney Biddle Barrows

2. "The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother-which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician."
-- Sydney J. Harris

3. "An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest."
-- Spanish proverb

4. "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
-- Theodore Hesburgh

5. "A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love."
-- Thomas C. Haliburton

6. "Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing."
-- Toni Morrison

7. "Children are the sum of what mothers contribute to their lives."
-- Unknown

8. "A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
-- Victor Hugo

9. "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

10. "The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother."
-- W. C. Fields

11. "A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it."
-- W. D. Howells

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

13. "The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world."
-- William Ross Wallace