I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.

Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Topics: Motherhood Quotes, Mothers Quotes, Thought Quotes

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the...

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the...

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why...

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why...

The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone

The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will...

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up...

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the...

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the...

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and...

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and...

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is...

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is...

If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language,...

If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language,...

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas,...

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas,...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems...

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man

Mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Mothers are instinctive philosophers.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had...

You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had...

Look in those eyes... Listen to that dear voice... Notice the feeling of even a...

Look in those eyes... Listen to that dear voice... Notice the feeling of even a...

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force....

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force....