Famous Quotes

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."

Honore de Balzac on Mothersday

More quotes about Mothersday

• "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

  Abraham Lincoln on Mothersday

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

  Abraham Lincoln on Mothersday

• "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

  Theodore Hesburgh on Mothersday

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray on Mothersday

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

  Victor Hugo on Mothersday

More quotes by Honore de Balzac

• "Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty."

• "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."

• "If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

• "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless."

• "The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."