Mother

Famous sayings and tributes to mothers

Men are what their mothers made them.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
-- W.R. Ross

All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
-- Abraham Lincoln

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
-- Henry Ward Beecher.

Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries.
-- Anonymous

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.
-- Sarah Josepha Hale

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
-- George Herbert

A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved.
-- Kate Samperi

A mother understands what a child does not say.
-- Jewish proverb

A man loves his sweetheart the most,
his wife the best,
but his mother the longest.
-- Irish proverb

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder
where you are when you don't come home at night.
-- Margaret Mead

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
-- Ogden Nash