Quotes about mothers - Saying about mom

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln


No painter’s brush, nor poet’s pen
In justice to her fame
Has ever reached half high enough
To write a mother’s name.
~Author Unknown


Women who miscalculate are called mothers. ~Abigail Van Buren


A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done. ~Author Unknown


Mirror, mirror on the wall,
I am my mother after all.
~Author Unknown


One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands — bare hands — and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands — a kind of mad courage. ~Robert Fulghum


One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars
Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before
The throne of God, burn through eternity -
Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.
~Nathaniel Parker Willis


No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. ~Harry Truman


God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb


Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
Ripe on a plate.
And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.
~Phyllis McGinley


All mothers are working mothers. ~Author Unknown


Because I feel that in the heavens above
The angels, whispering one to another,
Can find among their burning tears of love,
None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you,
You who are more than mother unto me.
~Edgar Allan Poe


Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey


A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb