MotherSimply having children does not make mothers.
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep. -
Elizabeth Chase
The hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. -
W. R. Wallace
Her children arise up, and call her blessed. -
Proverbs 31:28
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. -
William M. Thackeray
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. -
H. W. Beecher
What are Raphael's madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in a permanent outline forever? -
T. W. Higginson
Mother always said that honesty was the best policy, and money isn't everything. She was wrong about other things too. -
Gerald Barzan
"Once in Royal David's city" Once in Royal David's City Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a mother laid her baby, In a manger for its bed: Mary was that mother mid, Jesus Christ her little child. -
Cecil Frances Alexander
A mother who is really a mother is never free. -
Honore De Balzac
What the mother sings the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. -
Henry Ward Beecher
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. -
Jill Bennett
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. -
Benjamin Disraeli
Men are what their mothers made them. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent. -
Erich Fromm
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it. -
Ben Lindsey
"A boy's best friend is his mother." -
Anthony Perkins