Victor Hugo Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

• Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Sweet, Children

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.100, Wordsworth Editions

• Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Dream, Nature

  Victor Hugo (1845). “The Rhine”, p.128

• Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Strong, Self

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.68

• The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Children, Two

  Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

• ...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Pain, Children

  Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, p.135

• The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Children, Eye

• Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

  Victor Hugo

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.669, Wordsworth Editions

• Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Events, Gutenberg

• The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Growing Up, Believe

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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