Famous Quotes

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."

George Eliot 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 George Eliot

• "Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."

• "You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

• "The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best."

• "There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."

• "I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."