Mother Quotes
Mother, Mom, Ma, Mama… I have often wondered why the sound of it is similar in most of the languages?
Ma is an universal word, and it is the most important word and person for everyone, well almost.
Here is my favorite collection of Mother Quotes for that special person we all so love.
“My mother is a poem
I’ll never be able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my mother.”
~Sharon Doubiag
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
~Mark Twain
“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart – a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”
~ Mark Twain
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
~Meryl Streep
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
~Victor Hugo
“A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ”
~Emily Dickinson
“The precursor of the mirror is the mother’s face.”
~D.W. Winnicott,
“A boy’s best friend is his mother.”
~ Joseph Stefano
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
~Oscar Wilde
“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
“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”
~Aristotle

“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.. And that is the Women behind this mega success.
“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”
~From “The Golden Girls”
“My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.’
~Graycie Harmon
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
~Honoré de Balzac
Here is another favorite:
“There’s nothing like a mama-hug. ”
~Adabella Radici
Some Sayings and Proverbs:
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
~Spanish Saying
“Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.”
~Moorish Proverb
“A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done. ”
~Author Unknown
“God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ”
~Jewish Proverb
“A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.”
~Author Unknown
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I love this! this site is such a beautiful site, and i enjoyed looking at them. Thank-you.