Quotes about Mother

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Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
                               … Genesis 3:20 NIV Bible

No man is poor who has had a godly mother.               
                               … Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
                             … Robert Frost (1874-1963)

To be a mother is the greatest vocation in the world. No being has a position of such great power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her is necessarily committed the making of the nation's citizens.
                            … Hannah Whitall Smith (1832-1911)

As truly as God is our Father, so truly is God our Mother ... to the property of Motherhood belong nature, love, wisdom and knowledge and this is God.
                             ... Julian of Norwich (1342-c1417), Revelations of Divine Love

A woman, who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.  
                                   … Helen Hunt Jackson

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
                             ... George Washington (1732-1799)

Being a mother is fulfillment, it is surrender to others, it is Love and therefore of course it is suffering.
                              … Dorothy Day (1897-1980), The Long Loneliness, 1952

One of the best legacies a father can leave his children is to love their mother.
                             … C. Neil Strait

Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. 
                              … Exodus 20:12 NIV Bible