Familius - The Quotable Mom: Appreciation from the Greatest Minds in History

The

Quotable

Mom

Appreciation from the Greatest Minds in History

Motherhood and Relationships

There is no friendship, no love, like that of a mother for her child.

Henry Ward Beecher

They say that when Mamas not happy, nobodys happy. And why is that, you ask? The bond between a mother and her child is one of the strongest of any human relationships. It has an almost palpable presence in a family; a mothers relationship with her children directly affects the atmosphere of a home. That bond is the first relationship that each human being forms, and the ties are both physical and emotional.

When a baby is born, the creation of the mother-child bond is instinctual to the human species. In most cases, this attachment is imprinted in a mothers very genetics. In order to survive, infants require a mother to meet their physical and psychological needs. Some doctors believe that a close attachment with the mother can boost a babys immune system, raise the babys IQ, and prevent a variety of diseases. But as babies grow into toddlers, teens, and adults, they continue to rely on the emotional bond that can only be shared with a mother, and as emotional nourishment becomes even more important than physical care, mothers and mother-figures become even more vital.

Ironically, building a strong mother-child relationship ultimately enables children to become more independent. As children grow closer to their mothers, they are more empowered to leave the nest and experience life on their own. Children who form a strong relationship with their mothers are better equipped to face the world, its dangers, and its uncertainties. The mother becomes a safe haven, a base from which children can experience the world without fear and know that if a situation gets out of hand, they can always turn to their mother. Of course, mothers are naturally protective, but a healthy relationship simultaneously empowers both parties to rely on each other and to be autonomous.

While each mother-child relationship is unique, this loving bond in strengthened most by the love each party shows to the other. Motherhood creates a unique kind of love that sees a childs faults, shortcomings, and strengths, but loves the child in spite of and because of them. A mother feels her childrens pain and understands their grief in a way that no one else in the world is able. As the guardian of such a sacred relationship, mothers have the duty and the opportunity to give their children their love, their support, and their trust.

These quotes explain the value of motherhood and the beautiful relationships it garners.

Brooke Jorden

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Robert Browning English poet and playwright

Mothers love is peace. It need not be acquired; it need not be deserved.

Erich Fromm German social psychologist

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mothers love endures through all.

Washington Irving American author and historian

Its as if, in the mothers eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message: You are there!

Adrienne Rich American poet and essayist

Ive always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... thats motherhood.

Cass Elliot American singer

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

Kristin Hannah Summer Island

Anyone who doesnt miss the past never had a mother.

Gregory Nunn American athlete

A mothers arms are more comforting than anyone elses.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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 Indian guru and spiritual teacher

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We dont have an easy relationship. I dont think we ever will, but Id rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

Tori Spelling American actress and author

Im a lioness. I have four cubs. Im a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.

Heidi Klum German-born American model and TV personality

There is only one prettiest child in the world, and every mother has it.

Chinese proverb

For a mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among ten children and each child still have all her love.

Anonymous

Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you. If you dont listen to the little stuff when theyre little, they wont tell you the big stuff when theyre big. Because to them, all of it has always been big stuff.

Catherine M. Wallace American author and cultural critic

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.

Mildred B. Vermont

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Napoleon Bonaparte French military and political leader

Oh, my mom. Shes one of my biggest fans.

Patina Miller American actress and singer

Once youre a mom, youre always a mom. Its like riding a bike, you never forget.

Taraji P. Henson American actress and singer

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

Emily Dickinson American poet

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy C. Fisher American author and social activist

Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck American TV personality and talk show host

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

Irish proverb

Some 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 American writer and novelist

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Oprah Winfrey American TV personality and actress

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

Martina Hingis Swiss professional tennis player

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called Mom. It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

Patti Stanger American matchmaker and TV personality

A mothers arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.

Victor Hugo French novelist and poet

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, but only one mother in the whole world.

Kate Douglas Wiggin American author and educator

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

Washington Irving American author and historian

Mothers hold their childrens hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.

Anonymous

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.