Mothers

With what price we pay for the
glory of motherhood.

Isadora Duncan

That best academy, a mother's knee.

James Russell Lowell

Now, as always, the most automated
appliance in a household is the
mother.

Beverly Jones

Don't ever tell the mother of a
newborn that her baby's smile is
just gas.

Jill Woodhull

Any mother could perform the jobs
of several air traffic controllers
with ease.

Lisa Alther

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 one to whom you hurry
when you are troubled.

Emily Dickinson

Mother love is the fuel that
enables a normal human being to do
the impossible.

Marion C. Garretty

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.

Unknown

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the
shadow of a mother's love, fixed in
permanent outline forever?

Thomas Wentworth Higginson