Quotes of the day - "Mothers"

For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

– William Ross Wallace, lawyer, poet (1819-1881)

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

– Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman, writer (1813-1887)

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

– William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist (1811-1863)

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

– Lin Yutang, author (1895-1976)

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.

– Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, poet, novelist (1854-1900)