There is an evil movement in the world to diminish the roll and value of mothers. If completely successful, all is lost, nothing else matters.
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Blessings on the hand of women!
Angels guard its strength and grace,
In the palace, cottage, hovel,
Oh, no matter where the place;
Would that never storms assailed it,
Rainbows ever gently curled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
Infancy's the tender fountain,
Power may with beauty flow,
Mother's first to guide the streamlets,
From them souls unresting grow--
Grow on for the good or evil,
Sunshine streamed or evil hurled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
Woman, how divine your mission
Here upon our natal sod!
Keep, oh, keep the young heart open
Always to the breath of God!
All true trophies of the ages
Are from mother-love impearled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
Blessings on the hand of women!
Fathers, sons, and daughters cry,
And the sacred song is mingled
With the worship in the sky--
Mingles where no tempest darkens,
Rainbows evermore are hurled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
William Ross Wallace (1819-1881)
Train Up A Child
"These words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up."
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
Just as not all men who have children can justifiably bare the sublime designation of father, so it is with mother.
Some women who have never born a child, yet garner all the virtues and love of motherhood.
You can find research on motherhood and education, morality, and just about anything else through the specialized search engines below. In this posting, I have chosen to share the wisdom of many.
The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln
Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S. Buck
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com/
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle
The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heav
~William Goldsmith Brown
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. ~Author Unknown
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul
I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Terri Guillemets
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ~Emily Dickinson
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
That best academy, a mother's knee. ~James Russell Lowell
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~Victor Hugo
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
My mother is a poem
I'll never be able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my mother.
~Sharon Doubiago
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. ~Isadora Duncan
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert
There's nothing like a mama-hug. ~Terri Guillemets
Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
~Anne Taylor
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
~Ann Taylor
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is." ~Keith L. Brooks
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
If I was damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o' mine, O mother o'mine.
~Rudyard Kipling
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ~Mark Twain
My mom is literally a part of me. You can't say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. ~Carrie Latet
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
All mothers are working mothers. ~Author Unknown
The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks. ~Carrie Latet
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey
http://www.quotegarden.com/mothers.html
"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
-- Cardinal Mermillod
"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)
"What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."
-- Hosea Ballou
"The best academy, a mother's knee."
-- James Russell Lowell
"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"A boy's best friend is his mother."
-- Joseph Stefano
"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."
-- Lin Yutang
"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
-- Mark Twain
"Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions."
-- Nancy Stahl
"Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1775-1817)
"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
-- Pablo Picasso
"There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial."
-- Sydney Biddle Barrows
"The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother—which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician."
-- Sydney J. Harris
"An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest."
-- Spanish proverb
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
-- Theodore Hesburgh
"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love."
-- Thomas C. Haliburton
"Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing."
-- Toni Morrison
"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
-- Victor Hugo
"The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother."
-- W. C. Fields
"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it."
-- W. D. Howells
"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
--William Makepeace Thackeray
"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world."
-- William Ross Wallace
http://www.momscape.com/articles/mother-quotes.htm
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep. -Elizabeth Chase
Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.-Sophia Loren
In all my efforts to learn to read, my mother shared fully my ambition and sympathized with me and aided me in every way she could. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.-Booker T. Washington
It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew....I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.-Charles Chaplin
My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.-Elizabeth Kenny
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 and Ann Taylor Original Poems for Infant Minds "My Mother"
I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.-Immanuel Kant
My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.-Thomas A Edison
Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability. She is their earth. She is the one they can count on for the things that matter most of all. She is their food and their bed and the extra blanket when it grows cold in the night; she is their warmth and their health and their shelter; she is the one they want to be near when they cry. She is the only person in the whole world in a whole lifetime who can be these things to her children. There is no substitute for her. Somehow even her clothes feel different to her children's hands from anybody else's clothes. Only to touch her skirt or her sleeve makes a troubled child feel better.-Katharine Butler Hathaway
A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.-Henry Ward Beecher
Motherhood is the greatest potential influence in human society. Her caress first awakens in the child a sense of security; her kiss the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world. Thus in infancy and childhood she implants ever-directing and restraining influences that remain through life.-David 0. McKay
I affirm my profound belief that God's greatest creation is womanhood. I also believe that there is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. James E. Faust
It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word.-Erma Bombeck
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. -Jill Bennett
http://www.focused-momentum-lifecoach.com/mother-quotes.html
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is."
-- Keith L. Brooks
A mother holds her children's hands for a while...their hearts forever.
-- Author Unknown
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 understands what a child does not say.
-- Jewish proverb
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
-- Victor Hugo
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
Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.
-- Kate Samperi
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
-- Mildred B. Vermont
Children and mothers never truly part -
Bound in the beating of each other's heart.
-- Charlotte Gray
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.
-- Hosea Ballou
Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes.
-- P.J. O'Rourke
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
-- Jewish Proverb
I never knew how much love my heart could hold until someone called me "mommy."
-- Author Unknown
I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.
-- Natasha Gregson Wagner
I'd rather be a mother than anyone on earth
Bringing up a child or two of unpretentious birth...
I'd rather tuck a little child all safe and sound in bed
than twine a chain of diamonds about my [carefree] head.
I'd rather wash a smudgy face with round, bright, baby eyes
Than paint the pageantry of fame or walk among the wise.
-- Meredith Gray
If at first you don't succeed, do it the way your mother told you to.
-- Author Unknown
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
-- Erma Bombeck
It was when I had my first child that I understood how much my mother loved me.
-- From "For Mother - A Bouquet of Sentiments"
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.
-- Kate Douglas Wiggin
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
-- Marion C. Garretty
Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
-- T. DeWitt Talmage
Mother's love grows by giving.
-- Charles Lamb
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
-- Erich Fromm
Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.
-- Danielle Steel
My mother is a poem
I'll never be able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my mother.
-- Sharon Doubiago
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
-- Michael Jordan
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
-- Florida Scott-Maxwell
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
-- George Herbert
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
-- Margaret Culkin Banning
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
-- Thomas Hardy
The greatest thing she'd learned over the years is that there's no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one.
-- Author Unknown
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
-- Honoré de Balzac
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
-- Rajneesh
The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
The patience of a mother might be likened to a tube of toothpaste - it's never quite all gone.
-- Author Unknown
The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
-- Barbara Kingsolver
The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
-- William Goldsmith Brown
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
-- Chinese Proverb
When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
-- Pablo Picasso
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
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
-- Ann Taylor
Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.
-- Elaine Heffner
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be
I had a mother who read to me.
-- Strickland Gillilan
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
http://www.great-inspirational-quotes.com/mother-quotes.html
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