Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mothers Day, Mom, Philosopher

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “The Minister's Wooing”, p.176, Library of Alexandria

• I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mom, Mother, Prayer

• 'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where were you born?' 'Never was born!' 'Do you know who made you?' 'Nobody, as I knows on,' said the child, with a short laugh. . . . 'I 'spect I grow'd.'

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mother, Laughter, Children

• Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Funny, Mom, Mother

• 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.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mother, Children, Teaching

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.120, Library of Alexandria

• I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity - because as a lover of my county, I trembled at the coming day of wrath.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Christian, Mother, Wrath

  On Uncle Tom's Cabin in a letter to Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, January 20, 1853.

• God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mother, Father, Dear

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Illustrated)”, p.2120, Delphi Classics

• the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mother, Giving, Good Man

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.93, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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