Rudyard Kipling Quotes

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.

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.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.

My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women.

No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.

I am blessed to have a mother like mine. She is the greatest mother in the world.

Every normal woman that is a mother will do everything for your baby to make sure he is happy. Every mother understands that the baby is only happy being with his or her mother.

Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.

Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a man who couldn't live without me, a man who pictured my face when he closed his eyes, who loved me when I was a mess in the morning and when dinner was late and even when I overloaded the washing machine and burned out the motor. [My son] stares up at me as if I can do no wrong. I have always wanted someone who treats me the way he does; I just didn't know that I'd have to give birth to him.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

My mother was my best friend and confidante.

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.

When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave me as much motherly advice or seemed to love me more than did Sister Snow. I loved her with all my heart, and loved her hymn, 'O My Father.'

You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

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

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.