Washington Irving Quotes

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

There is no other love like a mother's love for her child.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

A mother's love liberates.

I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

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 mother's love endures through all.

Sons love moms forevermore.

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab:"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way that even the most abundantly offered love, my parents', my brother's, even Tom's, had failed to do. Love was required of me now--to be given, not merely to be sought and returned.

She'll never love you better than she loves her own children.

A mother is the truest friend we have.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.

My children love me. I'm like the mother they never had.

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.