Quotations about Motherhood ( Part 1)

M-O-T-H-E-R

"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
"R" means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER, "
A word that means the world to me. --Howard Johnson (c. 1915)

A boy's best friend is his mother.-- Joseph Stefano

A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is." -- Keith L. Brooks

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. -- Irish Proverb

A mother holds her children's hands for a while...their hearts forever. -- Author Unknown

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. -- Tenneva Jordan

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 trouble thickens 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

A mother understands what a child does not say. -- Jewish proverb

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

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. -- Agatha Christie

A mother's love liberates. -- Maya Angelou


Source: (Great Inspirational Quotes)