Honoring Our Mothers

I thought you might find these thoughts meaningful as we spend the week reflecting on our moms.

Thoughts About Motherhood

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
--Honore' de Balzac

The mother's heart is the child's school room. --Henry Ward Beecher

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. --George Eliot

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate. --Charlotte Gray

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. --Elizabeth Stone

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

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

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
--Honore' de Balzac

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. --Chinese Proverb

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. -- Jewish Proverb

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. --Zora Neale Hurston

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. --Tenneva Jordan