mother quotes :)

" Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women." Sheri Dew

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.  ~Robert Brault

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce

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

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, Women and Beauty

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 is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's." -- Diana, Princess of Wales

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent." -- Bette Davis

Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth. --William R. Webb



All quotes found on one of the following sites:
http://www.quotegarden.com/mothers.html
http://thinkexist.com/quotations/motherhood/
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/motherhood/a/mother_quotes.htm