Mothers

"The child must be prayed for. Those children that come with curses, that slip into the world, just in a moment of inadvertence, because that could not be prevented - what can we expect of such progeny? Mothers of America, think of that! Think in the heart of your hearts, are you ready to be women? Not any question of race or country, or that false sentiment of national pride. Who dares to be proud in this mortal life of ours, in this world of woes and miseries? What are we before this infinite force of God? But I ask you the question tonight: Do you all pray for the children to come? Are you thankful to be mothers, or not? Do you think that you are sanctified by motherhood, or not? Ask that of your minds. If you do not, your marriage is a lie, your womanhood is false, your education is superstition, and your children, if they come without prayer, will prove a curse to humanity."

"The modern mother who is beginning to find that the rearing of children is the most difficult of all professions, more difficult than engineering, than law, or even than medicine itself. But along with this conviction comes the search for facts which will help them."

"Wives haven't enough to do today. Scientific mass production has made their tasks so easy that they are overburdened with time. They utilize this time in destroying the happiness of their children."

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his."

"Stabat mater, dolorosa Juxta crucem lacrymosa Que pendebat Filius."

"Alma mater."

"[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother.""

"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."

"The mother of all living."

"There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within A mother's heart."

"The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter.""

"Mater ait natæ die natæ filia natum Ut moneat natæ plangere filiolam."

"I arose a mother in Israel."

"If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!"

"No mother should be ashamed to admit that the joys of motherhood start when the kids are either asleep, away, or well married."

"There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell."

"A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes."

"The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men."

"Her children arise up and call her blessed."

"They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main Kneel down and bless the empery Of his majestic reign; But a sovereign, gentler, mightier, Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world."

"And say to mothers what a holy charge Is theirs—with what a kingly power their love Might rule the fountains of the new-born mind."

"Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother."

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children."

"They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty scepter O'er lesser powers that be; But a mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world."

"Sure I love the dear silver that shines in your hair, And the brow that's all furrowed, and wrinkled with care. I kiss the dear fingers, so toil-worn for me, Oh, God bless you and keep you, Mother Machree."