Love is the mother of love. [ Proverb ]
Like mother, like daughter. [ Proverb ]
A babe is a mother's anchor. [ Beecher ]
Hope is the mother of faith. [ Landor ]
Fear is the mother of safety. [ Burke ]
Trade is the mother of money. [ Proverb ]
Night is the mother of counsel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Silence is the mother of truth. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Want is the mother of industry. [ Proverb ]
Night is the mother of Thought. [ Proverb ]
Congruity is the mother of love. [ Proverb ]
The mother is the first teacher. [ E. D. Mansfield ]
Ignorance is the mother of fear. [ Lord Kames ]
Poverty is the mother of health. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
All that I am, my mother made me. [ J. Q. Adams ]
Tell money after your own mother. [ Proverb ]
Heaven is at the feet of mothers. [ Roebuck ]
Mysterious to all thought,
A mother's prime of bliss,
When to her eager lips is brought
Her infant's thrilling kiss. [ Keble ]
Variety is the mother of enjoyment [ Disraeli ]
Obedience is the mother of success. [ Aeschylus ]
Necessity, the mother of Invention. [ Wycherly ]
Experience is the mother of custom. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Mother's love is the cream of love. [ Proverb ]
Necessity, thou mother of the world! [ Shelley ]
Constraint is the mother of desires. [ D'Argens ]
A pitiful mother makes a scald head. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Then take me on your knee, mother;
And listen, mother of mine.
A hundred fairies danced last night.
And the harpers they were nine. [ Mary Howitt ]
Hardness ever of hardness is mother. [ William Shakespeare ]
Mother's truth keeps constant youth. [ Proverb ]
I had not so much of man in me,
And all my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears. [ William Shakespeare ]
Ignorance is the mother of impudence. [ Proverb ]
Diligence is the mother of good luck. [ Franklin ]
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion. [ W. R. Alger ]
Men are what their mothers made them. [ Emerson ]
Ignorance is the mother of all evils. [ Montaigne ]
Prosperity forgets father and mother. [ Spanish Proverb ]
A mother's love is ever in its spring. [ Chenier ]
The folly of a mother is a heavy burden. [ Racine ]
Joyousness is the mother of all virtues. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A woman's love
Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
And by its weakness overcomes. [ James Russell Lowell ]
A kiss from my mother made me a painter. [ Benjamin West ]
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. [ Proverb ]
The husband's mother is the wife's devil. [ German Proverb ]
The watchful mother tarries nigh,
Though sleep has clos'd her infant's eye. [ Keble ]
Mother's darlings are but milksop heroes. [ Proverb ]
Sacred religion! Mother of Form and Fear! [ Samuel Daniel ]
Mother, a maiden is a tender thing,
And best by her that bore her understood. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Mrs. Chatterbox is the mother of mischief. [ Proverb ]
Earth, that's Nature's mother, is her tomb. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The meek-eyed Morn appears, mother of dews. [ Thomson ]
Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss. [ Pollok ]
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. [ Beecher ]
Mother is one of the sweetest names on earth. [ A. Ritchie ]
Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger. [ Zimmermann ]
For thee, O now a silent soul, my brother,
Take at my hands this garland and farewell,
Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell,
And chill the solemn earth, a fatal mother. [ Swinburne ]
Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter. [ Proverb ]
A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. [ Spanish Proverb ]
What instruction the baby brings to the mother! [ T. W. Higginson ]
Speedy execution is the mother of good fortune. [ Proverb ]
Let not bitterness enter the heart of a mother. [ Ptah-Hotep ]
The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. [ Alexander Smith ]
Ask the mother, if the child be like his father. [ Proverb ]
The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
My mother,
is an expression of music and melody. [ Mme. Clairon ]
Trade hardly deems the busy day begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by.
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on.
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. [ Sprague ]
Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief
On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair
It has mantled a world. [ Joaquin Miller ]
The good mother says not "will you ?" but gives. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There is no mother like the mother that bore us. [ Yriarte ]
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother. [ Auerbach ]
Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck. [ Samuel Smiles ]
The best shelter for a girl is her mother's wing.
The grand-mother's correction makes no impression. [ Proverb ]
An ounce o' mother-wit is worth a pound o' clergy. [ Scotch Proverb ]
One good mother is worth a hundred school masters. [ George Herbert ]
Fortune to one is mother, to another is stepmother. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A child may have too much of its mother's blessing. [ Proverb ]
The mother in her office holds the key of the soul. [ Dibdin ]
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop
Into thy mother's lap. [ Milton ]
A lover is loved most, a wife best, a mother always.
Suffering is the mother of fools, reason of wise men.
A mother is a mother still - the holiest thing alive. [ Coleridge ]
Where there is a mother in the house, matters speed well. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good-will. [ Beecher ]
It is not as your mother says, but as your neighbours say. [ Proverb ]
Love and trust are the only mother-milk of any man's soul. [ John Ruskin ]
He that wipes the child's nose kisseth the mother's cheek. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The bearing and the training of a child is woman's wisdom. [ Tennyson ]
Experience is the father of Wisdom, and Memory the mother. [ Proverb ]
The future of society is in the hands of the mothers.
If the world was lost through woman, she alone can save it. [ Louis De Beaufort ]
Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The mother knows best whether the child be like the father. [ Proverb ]
Of all men, Adam was the happiest - he had no mother-in-law. [ P. Parfait ]
But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother. [ Leopold Schefer ]
A mother's tenderness and caresses are the milk of the heart. [ Mlle. de Guerin ]
Distrust is the mother of safety, but must keep out of sight. [ Proverb ]
Cost is the father and compensation is the mother of progress. [ J. G. Holland ]
He that is killed by a cannon was cursed in his mother's belly. [ Proverb ]
Memory is a Muse in herself; or rather the mother of the Muses. [ ? ]
The mother-in-law, remembers not that she was a daughter-in-law. [ Proverb ]
There is no mother so bad but she desires to have good children. [ Veneroni ]
Every one can keep house better than her mother, till she trieth. [ Proverb ]
The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. [ Napoleon I ]
If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury. [ Cicero ]
There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel. [ Henry W. Shaw ]
At first babes feed on the mother's bosom, but always on her heart. [ H. W. Beecher ]
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of little children. [ Thackeray ]
A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages. [ Carlyle ]
Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is the mother who makes the domestic hearth the nursery of heroes. [ D. Webster ]
A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Fanaticism is the daughter of Ignorance, and the mother of Infidelity. [ J. Bellenden ]
I never hear of a great man, that I do not inquire who was his mother. [ J. Adams ]
If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them. [ Bruyere ]
If you would take a peep at sunshine, look in the face of a young mother. [ Fanny Fern ]
France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers. [ Napoleon I ]
A mother's duty to her children is second only to her duty to her Creator. [ Mrs. Sarah D. Comstock ]
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. [ Franklin ]
His sweetest dreams were still of that dear voice that soothed his infancy. [ Southey ]
Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when grown up. [ Proverb ]
God pardons like a mother who kisses away the repentant tears of her child. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Diligence is the mother, while negligence is but a step-dame to all learning. [ Boethius ]
Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent. [ Miss Mulock ]
Can you expect that the mother will teach good morals or others than her own. [ Juv ]
A mother who doesn't part with a daughter every season has no real affection. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Whoso is not dutiful to a good mother, shall be punished by an ill step-mother. [ Proverb ]
I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother. [ Lacretelle ]
I have not wept these forty years; but now my mother comes afresh into my eyes. [ Dryden ]
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
If the mother had not been in the oven, she had never sought her daughter there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A mother's tenderness and a father's care are nature's gifts for man's advantage. [ L. Murray ]
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative, but is the death of poetical invention. [ Shenstone ]
If there be aught surpassing human deed or word or thought, it is a mother's love. [ Mme. de Spadara ]
Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. [ Agnesi ]
A happy jest often gives birth to another; but the child is seldom worth the mother. [ Alfred Bougeart ]
The only love which on this teeming earth asks no return for passion's wayward birth. [ Mrs. Norton ]
An affectionate mother wishes that her offspring may be wiser and better than herself. [ Horace ]
Among all animals, from man to the dog, the heart of a mother is always a sublime thing. [ A. Dumas pere ]
Happy is the man who reverences all women because he first learned to worship his mother. [ Richter ]
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love fixed in permanent outline. [ Thomas Wentworth Higginson ]
Those mothers are wise who seek to prepare their daughters for their probable destination. [ Solon ]
Obey the voice of your mother, O my children! and remember the teachings of the Most High. [ Rabbi Judah ]
A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. [ Herbert Spencer ]
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. [ Victor Hugo ]
No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child. [ Manilius ]
The future of girls depends altogether upon the knowledge, courage, and prudence of good mothers. [ Dr. Porter ]
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall: A mother's secret hope outlives them all. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
If angels ever condescend to walk on this earth of ours, it is when clad in the form of good mothers. [ W. T. Burke ]
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face. [ Longfellow ]
If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam. [ Lord Langdale ]
Expel avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirsty for more, opens wide her jaws for gold. [ Claudianus ]
I heard that God had called your mother home to heaven. It will seem more than ever like home to you now. [ Babcock ]
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: a very stupid daughter of a very wise mother. [ Voltaire ]
To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence. [ Lord Beaconsfield ]
Can man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace, or their father and mother. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]
What a volume could be written on the word mother
; what a history of forbearance, of kindness, and of love. [ James Ellis ]
In this advanced century, a girl of sixteen knows as much as her mother, and enjoys her knowledge much more.
Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house. [ Babcock ]
Water is the mother of the vine. The nurse and fountain of fecundity. The adorner and refresher of the world. [ Chas. Mackay ]
The too good opinion man has of himself is the nursing-mother of all false opinions, both public and private. [ Montaigne ]
Cherish every sentiment of respect for your mother; she merits your warmest gratitude, esteem, and veneration. [ Percival ]
Happy is the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. [ Hare ]
Speak no harsh words of earth; she is our mother, and few of us her sons who have not added a wrinkle to her brow. [ Alexander Smith ]
A grandam's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother; they are as children but one step below. [ William Shakespeare ]
There is in all this cold and hollow world no fount of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within a mother's heart. [ Mrs. Hemans ]
A faithful mother can do more in one quarter in the education of her child, than a schoolmaster can accomplish in years. [ J. W. Barker ]
A halo of glory surrounds all true, pure mothers, showing their worthiness to sit upon the steps of the heavenly throne. [ Mrs. E. B. Duffey ]
No tongue can tell the joy of a pious mother, when her child is converted or turned from the way of folly to that of true wisdom. [ Mrs. Willard ]
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. [ George Eliot ]
Resolution is the youngest and dearest daughter of Destiny, and may win from the fond mother almost any favor she chooses to ask. [ Lowell ]
A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
That was a judicious mother who said, I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
[ Beecher ]
The mother forms the first rudiments of the infant mind, and instills into the infant bosom the first principles of virtuous action. [ J. Iredell ]
One lamp, thy mother's love, amid the stars shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before the throne of God burn through eternity. [ N. P. Willis ]
I have thought that in all women's deepest loves, be they ever so full of reverence, there enters sometimes much of the motherly element. [ Miss Muloch ]
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty. [ Samuel Smiles ]
In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to be obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother. [ Jane Porter ]
Employment, which Galen calls nature's physician,
is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. [ Burton ]
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall occasionally be visited on their children, as well as the sins of fathers. [ Dickens ]
Nature has directly formed woman to be a mother, only indirectly to be a wife; man, on the contrary, is rather made to be a husband than a father. [ Jean Paul ]
When a mother, as fond mothers will, vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much. [ Thackeray ]
It is a general rule, one at least to which I know no exceptions, that all superior men inherit the elements of their superiority from their mothers. [ Michelet ]
Stories first heard at a mother's knee are never wholly forgotten - a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years. [ Ruffini ]
Look at home, father priest, mother priest; your church is a hundredfold heavier responsibility than mine can be. Your priesthood is from God's own hands. [ Ward Beecher ]
Mother! The holy thoughts and chastened memories that cluster around this name, can never be so well expressed as in the calm utterance of the name itself. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Mother love hath this unlikeness to any other love: Tender to the object, it can be infinitely tyrannical to itself, and thence all its power of self-sacrifice. [ Lew Wallace ]
Mothers! endeavor to educate your daughters; tram them up to be faithful, grateful, dutiful daughters, and they will not fail to be excellent wives and mothers. [ Mrs. A. G. Whittelsey ]
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Friendship has the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother. [ Earl of Clarendon ]
It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers. [ T. Hook ]
The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father, the former has intellect; the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury. [ Schopenhauer ]
Mothers are more fond of their children than fathers are; for the bringing them forth is more painful, and they have a more certain knowledge that they are their own. [ Aristotle ]
How much more mothers love their children than their husbands; the latter are often selfish and cruel; but children cannot separate their mother's from their affection. [ Mme. Paterson Bonaparte ]
I am of opinion that there are no proverbial sayings which are not true, because they are all sentences drawn from experience itself, who is the mother of all sciences. [ Cervantes ]
The instructions received at the mother's knee and the maternal lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never effaced entirely from the soul. [ Lamennais ]
As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother. [ Bulwer ]
When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character. Let parents bear this ever in mind. [ Hosea Ballou ]
He only is great who has the habits of greatness; who, after performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like Samson, and tells neither father nor mother of it.
[ Lavater ]
We so converse every night with the image of death that every morning we find an argument of the resurrection. Sleep and death have but one mother, and they have one name in common. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. [ Emerson ]
The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. Ah! the world, that cruel step-mother, beats the poor child the harder to make him shed more pearls. [ Heinrich Heine ]
Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Lover, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother: in those six words lies what the human heart contains of the sweetest, the most ecstatic, the most sacred, the purest, and the most ineffable. [ Massias ]
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy: the smile that accepts the lover before the words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures it of a mother's love. [ Haliburton ]
Men are what their mothers made them; you may as well ask a loom which weaves huckaback, wiry it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer, or a chemical discovery from that jobber. [ R. W. Emerson ]
The prayers of a mother do not die when she dies, and the real heart and its sinless sympathies are never buried in the tomb; her love is purer and warmer now, for it comes from the sainted spirit shore. [ A. W. Mangum ]
Trust to me, judicious mother: do not make of your daughter an honest man, as if to give the lie to Nature; make her an honest woman, and be assured that she will be of more worth both to herself and to us. [ Rousseau ]
I should have been a French atheist were it not for the recollection of the time when my departed mother used to take my little hand in hers, and make me say, on my bended knees, Our Father who art in heaven!
[ John Randolph ]
The examples of maternal influences are countless; Solomon himself records the words of wisdom that fell from a mother's lips, and Timothy was taught the Scriptures from a child by his grandmother and his mother. [ A. Ritchie ]
Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled. [ Johnson ]
Education does not commence with the alphabet; it begins with a mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or a sign of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance. [ G. A. Sala ]
Food, improperly taken, not only produces originnl diseases, but affords those that are already engendered both matter and sustenance; so that, let the father of disease be what it may. In temperance is certainly its mother. [ Burton ]
Almost every great soul that has led forward, or lifted up the race, has been furnished for each nobler deed, and inspired with each patriotic and holy aspiration, by the retiring fortitude of some Spartan - some Christian mother. [ C. J. White ]
The name of a mother! what a long history does it bring with it of smiles and words of mildness, of tears shed by night and of sighings at the morning dawn, of love unrequited, of cares for which there can be no recompense on earth. [ Prof. Park ]
O mothers! reflect upon the power that your Maker has placed in your hands; there is no earthly influence to be compared with yours; there is no combination of causes so powerful in promoting the happiness or misery of our race, as the instructions of home! [ J. S. C. Abbott ]
Ask men of genius how much they owe to their mothers, and you will find that they attribute almost all to them and their influence; and if we could only guage the mental capacity of the wives of great men, we might perhaps learn why genius is so seldom hereditary. [ Lord Kames ]
No language can express the power and beauty, and heroism and majesty of a mother's love; it shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven. [ E. H. Chapin ]
Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven. [ Longfellow ]
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. A cloak should be of three-pile, to keep its gloss in wear. [ Hare ]
A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us. [ Bovee ]
Nature, when she amused herself by giving stiff manners to old maids, put virtue in a very bad light. A woman must have been a mother to preserve under the chilling influences of time that grace of manner and sweetness of temper, which prompt us to say, One sees that love has dwelt there.
[ Lemontey ]
In my opinion mothers ought to bring up and suckle their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them; but the love of a nurse is spurious and counterfeit, as loving them only for hire. [ Plutarch ]
Let every mother consider herself as an instrument in the hands of Providence - let her reflect on the immense importance the proper education of one single family may eventually prove; and that, while the fruit of her labors may descend to generations yet unborn, she will herself reap a glorious reward. [ Miss Hamilton ]
As the health and strength or weakness of our bodies is very much owing to their methods of treating us when we were young, so the soundness or folly of our minds is not less owing to those first tempers and ways of thinking which we eagerly received from the love, tenderness, authority, and constant conversation of our mothers. [ E. Law ]
The only thing that has been taught successfully to women is to wear becomingly the fig-leaf they received from their first mother. Everything that is said and repeated for the first eighteen or twenty years of a woman's life is reduced to this: My daughter, take care of your fig-leaf; your fig-leaf becomes you; your fig-leaf does not become you.
[ Diderot ]
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation, sober counsels and ingenuous actions, open deportment and sweet carriage, sincere principles and unprejudicate understanding, love of God and selfdenial, peace and confidence, holy prayers and spiritual comfort, and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
There is something too dear in the hope of seeing again.... Dear heart, be quiet;
we say; you will not be long separated from those people that you love; be quiet, dear heart!
And then we give it in the meanwhile a shadow, so that it has something, and then it is good and quiet, like a little child whose mother gives it a doll instead of the apple which it ought not to eat. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The mother begins her process of training with the infant in her arms. It is she who directs, so to speak, its first mental and spiritual pulsations; she conducts it along the impressible years of childhood and youth, and hopes to deliver it to the rough contests and tumultuous scenes of life, armed by those good principles which her child has received from maternal care and love. [ D. Webster ]
Never! never has one forgotten his pure, right educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death! Be, then, the mothers of your children. [ Richter ]
The mother, under whose sole influence the child is for years, from whom it acquires its tastes and character, should not only be educated, but educated in the most thorough manner, and have her mind stored with varied learning, so that she may be able to answer the multitude of questions that will be put to her by her inquisitive child on art, science, literature, and religion, and thus to stimulate his curiosity, and awaken his mind. [ E. B. Ramsay ]
Throughout the pages of history we are struck with the fact that our remarkable men possessed mothers of uncommon talents for good or bad, and great energy of character; it would almost seem from this circumstance, that the impress of the mother is more frequently stamped on the boy, and that of the father upon the girl - we mean the mental intellectual impress, in distinction from the physical ones. Mothers will do well to remember that their impress is often stamped upon their sons. [ Helen Mar ]
If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]
Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]
See a fond mother encircled by her children; with pious tenderness she looks around, and her soul even melts with maternal love. One she kisses on its cheeks, and clasps another to her bosom; one she sets upon her knee, and finds a seat upon her foot for another. And while, by their actions, by their lisping words, and asking eyes, she understands their numberless little wishes, to these she dispenses a look, and a word to those; and whether she grants or refuses, whether she smiles or frowns, it is all in tender love. [ Krummacher ]
Who can fathom the depth of a mother's love! No friendship so pure, so devoted; the wild storm of adversity and the bright sunshine of prosperity are all alike to her; however unworthy we may be of that affection, a mother never ceases to love her erring child. Often, when alone, as we gaze up to the starry heaven, can we in imagination catch a glimpse of the angels around the great white throne,
and among the brightest and fairest of them all is our sweet mother, ever beckoning us onward and upward to her celestial home. [ R. Smith ]
What is more pleasing than the sight of the affectionate mother, watching with untiring devotion over her helpless child? Who can contemplate her devotion to the object of her love, enduring his waywardness, forgiving his faults, relieving his pains, and enjojdng his pleasures; pouring incessantly into his opening soul the mature wisdom of her counsels, and following him with her untiring prayers, as he finally goes forth to battle with the temptations and trials of life, without feeling that the true mother's heart is the noblest of heaven's gifts? [ H. Winslow ]
If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]
The loss of a mother is always severely felt; even though Her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn! It is like that lonely star before us; neither its heat nor light are anything to us in themselves; yet the shepherd would feel his heart sad if he missed it, when he lifts his eye to the brow of the mountain over which it rises when the sun descends. [ Lamartine ]
The first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier or a sailor, in his heart's difficulty, is his mother; she clings to his memory and affection in the midst of all the f orgetf ulness and hardihood induced by a roving life; the last message he leaves is for her; his last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instills the lessons of piety and filial obligation into the heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labor is not in vain. She may drop into the grave, but she has left behind her influences that will work for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will do its ofiice. [ A. H. Motte ]
The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]
With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]
Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]