Mom And Daughter Quotes - Page 2

• What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Mom, Mother

  1869 Little Women, pt.2, ch.46.

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• When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.

  Lucie Arnaz

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

  Euripides

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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• The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

  Jane Seymour

  Beauty, Strong, Character

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• Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

  Washington Irving

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• That best academy, a mother's knee.

  James Russell Lowell

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Mothers Day, Mom, Hope

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.129, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Marilyn French

  I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

  Marilyn French (2013). “A Season in Hell: A Memoir”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.

  Whitney Houston

  Mom, Daughter, Teacher

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• Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

  Amy Tan

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.15, Penguin

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• Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

  Meryl Streep

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Daughter

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

  Rajneesh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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• [A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.475, Harvard University Press

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

  Beverley Jones

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• 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 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

  Best Friend, Family, Mothers Day

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• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Family, Mothers Day

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Wings

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• 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

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

  Jill Churchill

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mothers Day

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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