George Eliot Quotes About Mothers

• Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

  George Eliot

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

• The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Moving, Animal

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.15

• Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Children, Teaching

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

  George Eliot

  Mom, Mother, Children

• Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Romola: Top Novelist Focus".

• In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Men, Giving

  George Eliot (1875). “Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.224

• So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Morning, Memories

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.157, Wordsworth Editions

• The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.

  George Eliot

  Spiritual, Mother, Brother

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3786, Delphi Classics

• The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Animal, Love Is

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.15

• We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.

  George Eliot

  Love, Mother, Looks

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.177

• It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Reading, Son

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1728, Delphi Classics

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