“Anything you do to prepare your children for the future is a way of saying ‘I love you.’ “
—Tim Kimmel

“Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.”
—Jackie Kennedy

“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.”
—Garrison Keillor

“Your work is most holy. You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls. The powers folded up in the little ones that you hushed to sleep in your bosoms last night, are powers that shall exist forever. You are preparing them for their immortal destiny and influence. Be faithful. Take up your sacred burden reverently. Be sure that your life is sweet and clean.”
—JR Miller

“As children hear their parents praying for wisdom and direction, they learn that parents can’t fix everything. I believe God designed it this way. After all, if parents were perfect, children would never sense their need for God.”
—Paul Meter

“There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness…The memory of my mother and her teachings were after all the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.”
—Andrew Jackson

“He is not poor who has had a godly mother.”
—Abraham Lincoln

“To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women—isn’t that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?”
—Jessie Willcox Smith

“Where ever you are dear mother, be there!”
—Nancy Campbell

“I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.”
—John Wesley

“To nourish children and raise them against the odds is, in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.”
—Marilyn French

“So here it is again mothers: embrace your mothering career with all your heart. Love it. Be there and enjoy it rather than dreaming of some other life. You are living the best life. You have the most powerful career. You are training children who will determine the destiny of the nation and the course of history. You couldn’t be doing anything more powerful or life-changing!”
—Nancy Campbell

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs . . . since the payment is pure love.”
—Mildred B. Vermont

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.”
—Abraham Lincoln

“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”
—Marion C. Garretty

“We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.”
—Henry Ward Beecher

“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.”
—William D. Tammeus

“If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.”
—Claudia Ghandi

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
—Unknown

“The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.”
—By Francis Thompson

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
—Oprah Winfrey

“Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.”
—A Moorish Proverb

“The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks.”
—Carrie Latet

“A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.”
—Victoria Secunda

“Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing.”
—Toni Morrison, Beloved

“A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”
—Emily Dickinson

“A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.”
—Unknown

“The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.”
—William Goldsmith Brown

“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’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
—Honoré de Balzac

“My mother is a poem I’ll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”
—Sharon Doubiago

“A little girl, when asked where her home was, replied, ‘where mother is.’”
—Keith L. Brooks

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

“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, comrades and friends – but only one mother in the whole world.”
—Kate Douglas Wiggin

“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

“Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.”
— Helen Hunt Jackson

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
—Meryl Streep

“My mom is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.”
—Graycie Harmon

“The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests.”
“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”
—Marion C. Garretty

“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.”
—Lisa Alther

“That best academy, a mother’s knee.”
—James Russell Lowell

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
—Victor Hugo

“One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.”
—George Herbert

“The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.”
—Washington Irving

“I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.”
—Renita Weems

“Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”
—T. DeWitt Talmage

“The precursor of the mirror is the mother’s face.”
— D.W. Winnicott

“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

“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
—Abraham Lincoln

“Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”
—Pearl S. Buck

“Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s the men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one’s likely to do anything about that.”
—Golda Meir

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
—Honoré de Balzac

“He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men’s mothers.”
—Harry Emerson Fosdick

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
—A Spanish Proverb

“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.”
—Margaret Culkin Banning

“The influence exerted by the mother is great beyond the power of our minds to think or of our words to tell. The making of the child’s character is in the mother’s hands to a degree that is nothing short of startling.”
—S. D. Gordon

“[After twenty-seven years] of learning the truth of living sacrificially, I have found that embracing God’s call to motherhood once and for all has brought me great peace. Instead of seeing fusses and messes as irritations in my day, for instance, I am more likely to see them as opportunities to train my children to be peacemakers and to learn to be responsible for their own messes. Instead of resenting the interruptions in my schedule, I am more likely to accept them as divine appointments. More and more, I have learned to see my children through the eyes of God and to accept the stages of growth through which he has designed them to grow.”
—Sally Clarkson, The Mission of Motherhood

“I LOVE MOTHERHOOD! Every mother loves her children, but not every mother loves motherhood. This is the secret to entering into the joy of motherhood for which God created us. Motherhood is not something to run from as the liberalists advocate but to EMBRACE! Start off every day confessing out loud, I LOVE MOTHERHOOD. You will be amazed how this attitude will change your mothering and your whole household!”
—Nancy Campbell

“‘A mother had better be missed in the church, and at the public meetings—than be missed in her own household’ —J. R. Miller. I am reminded of of the words of the Shulamite in Song of Songs 1:6, ‘They made me the keeper of the vineyards; but my own vineyard have I not kept.’ Don’t let society, or even pressure from the church keep you from keeping your own vineyard.”
—Nancy Campbell

“What is a godly mother? A godly mother is one who loves the Lord her God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength and then passionately, consistently, and unrelentingly teachers her child to do the same.”
—Elizabeth George, A Woman’s High Calling

“No one has more potential for godly influence on a child than that child’s God-fearing mother. We, therefore, are to take up the cause, answer God’s call, muster up our courage, and set out to be the best, most faithful teacher of God’s Word and God’s ways we can be to our precious children.”
—Elizabeth George, A Woman’s High Calling

“Oh, dear mother! Far from being an inferior or a secondary calling, our calling to be loving and godly mothers is indeed most high! No one else is called to love our children but us. And no one else can love our children like us. God calls you and me to love our God-given children.
—Elizabeth George, A Woman’s High Calling

“Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord. . .who then also raises godly children to continue your godly legacy for generations to come.”
—Elizabeth George, A Woman’s High Calling

“A mother in her office holds the key of the soul; and she it is who stamps the coin of character and makes the being who would be a savage, but for her gentle cares, a Christian man! Then crown her queen of the world.”
—Unknown