Quotes about Maternal Guidance
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
— Job 31:18
What shall I say, O my son? What, O son of my womb? What, O son of my vows?
— Proverbs 31:2
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
— 1 Timothy 5:2
The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
A mother's role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands.
— Ezra Taft Benson
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.
— Maya Angelou
No one ever outgrows the need for a mother's love.
— Janette Oke
It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.
— John Mayer