MOTHERHOOD

Related Subjects: Babies, Children, Family, Father

1. Where there is a mother in house, matters speed well.—BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk

2. God could not be everywhere therefore he made mothers.—Anonymous

3. Does your mother know you're out?—Anonymous
   

4. Don't poets know
   Better than others?
   God can't be always everywhere: and, so,
   Invented Mothers.—SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, Mothers
   

5. Lord, who ordainest for mankind
   Benignant toils and tender cares!
   We thank Thee for the ties that bind
   The mother to the child she bears.—BRYANT, The Mother's Hymn
   

6. Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.—EDWARD CARPENTER, Love's Coming-of-Age
   

7. A mother is a mother still,
   The holiest thing alive.—COLERIDGE, The Three Graves
   

8. Do you perhaps think that nature gave women nipples as a kind of beauty spot, not for the purpose of nourishing their children?—FAVORINUS
   

9. Our women have a proverb, "It is a sad burden to carry a dead man's child."—THOMAS FULLER, Church History
   

10. Where yet was ever found a mother
    Who'd give her booby for another?—JOHN GAY, The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy
    

11. These women of the present day, ill-used as daughters, as sisters, as wives, not educated according to their gifts, prevented from following their inclination, deprived of their inheritance, embittered in temper—it is these who furnish the mothers of the new generation.—IBSEN, Ghosts: Notes
    

12. Maids must be wives and mothers, to fulfil
    Th' entire and holiest end of women's being.—FRANCES KEMBLE, Woman's Heart
    

13. A mother loves her child more than the father does, because she knows it's her own, while the father only thinks it's his.—MENANDER, Fragments
    

14. The bravest battle that ever was fought;
    Shall I tell you where and when?
    On the maps of the world you will find it not;
    It was fought by the mothers of men.—JOAQUIN MILLER, The Bravest Battle
    

15. The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.—NAPOLEON
    

16. I feel that, in the Heavens above,
    The angels, whispering to one another,
    Can find, among their burning terms of love,
    None so devotional as that of "Mother."—POE, To My Mother
    

17. Light-heel'd mothers make leaden-heel'd daughters.—Proverb
    

18. No mother is so wicked but desires to have good children.—Proverb
    

19. The mother-in-law remembers not that she was a daughter-in-law.—Proverb
    

20. The mother knows best, whether the child be like the father.—Proverb
    

21. A child may have too much of mother's blessing.—Proverb
    

22. So loving to my mother
    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
    Visit her face too roughly.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

23. A grandam's name is little less in love,
    Than is the doting title of a mother.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

24. Simply having children does not make mothers.—A. SHEDD, Salt from My Attic
    

25. Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.—SOPHOCLES, Phaedra
    

26. A lady who had gallantries and several children, told her husband he was like the austere man, who reaped where he did not sow.—SWIFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects
    

27. Who ran to help me when I fell,
    And would some pretty story tell,
    Or kiss the place to make it well?
    My mother.—JANE TAYLOR, My Mother
    

28. Is not a young mother one of the sweetest sights life shows us?—THACKERAY, The Newcomes
    

29. Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.—THACKERAY, Vanity Fair
    

30. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.—WILLIAM R. WALLACE, The Hand That Rules the World

31. Years to a mother bring distress
    But do not make her love the less.—WORDSWORTH,The Affliction of Margaret