Famous Quotes

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

Victor Hugo 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

• "God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."

  Rudyard Kipling on Mothersday

More quotes by Victor Hugo

• "Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age."

• "When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

• "Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."

• "Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh."

• "I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!"