Great Mother Quotes

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie. — Patsy Kensit

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. — Mother Teresa

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45. — Amy Grant

This was fuck-you-and-your-mother-and-everyone-else money — Chris Cole

I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends. — Ivanka Trump

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful. — Mother Teresa

The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins. — Jose Andres

Without compassion for a fellow man, for great splendors of our Sister, Mother Earth the humankind will never reconcile with itself. — Vinko Vrbanic

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don't have much sense. — Madeleine L'Engle

There was never a great man who had not a great mother. — Olive Schreiner

Even my great grand-mother did impressions. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. — G.K. Chesterton

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife. — Patti Smith

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. — Mother Teresa

The great problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her. — Gloria Furman

Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering. — Mother Angelica

I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators. — Mother Jones

Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings. — Nhat Hanh

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me. — Katherine Heigl

Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing. — Mother Teresa

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman. — Tory Burch

All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar. — Cathy Guisewite

Together we can do great things. — Mother Teresa

The way is a great mother, empty yet inexhaustible. She gives birth to worlds unending. Ever present within you, manifest her as you will. — Stifyn Emrys

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers. — Robert Green Ingersoll

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother. — Doris Lessing

The man who shows great respect for his mother, and the women in his life; will have respect for those he meets. — Ellen J. Barrier

I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist. — Sonia Manzano

The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love. — Mother Teresa

For every victory," Necthana whispered, her great dark eyes shining with a mother's tears, "there is a price. — Jacqueline Carey

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. — Gunter Grass

The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly? — Mother Meera

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money. — Bill Murray

My mother's love for me was so great
I have worked hard to justify it. — Marc Chagall

I like your mother. you have your mother's breasts."
"her breasts."
"great stand-up tits." he said — Don DeLillo

Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small. — Mother Teresa

Real Womanhood isn't a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father. — Ann Voskamp

Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor. — Mother Teresa

You know how they say behind every great man there's a great woman? My mother would say, No, the woman is three steps ahead. — Renee Carlino

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. — James E. Faust

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other. — Tori Amos

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion. — Elizabeth Taylor

We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things. — Arlo Guthrie

His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all. — Mervyn Peake

Small things done with great love will change the world. — Mother Teresa

No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does. — Mary Matalin

Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things. — Raymond Arroyo

I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life. — Marilyn Sewell

If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear. — J.M. Barrie

A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation. — Hafez Ibrahim

Many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great. — Sarah Josepha Hale

When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Sometimes, somehow ...
I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,
that mourns over terrible great sin done by men. — Toba Beta

A chair does not make a great leader. But a great leader can make any chair, his throne."

--Dark Mother — Jeffrey B. Thompson

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it. — Christopher Heyerdahl

Do small things with great Love — Mother Teresa

I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element. — Greg Bryk

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved. — Mother Teresa

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love. — Mother Teresa

A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

We are all called to be great saints, don't miss the opportunity. — Mother Angelica

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity on both counts. — Shirley Chisholm

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride. — Ed Koch

I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great.

Before I was your mother, I was a girl. — Beth Lyon Barnett

Good mother knows her children, knows everything about them, the good and the bad. A great mother loves them regardless. — Melody Anne

People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities. — Melina Marchetta

I am a great mother. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love — Mother Teresa

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. — Larry Elder

Growing up, I was the champion of spiders and moths in my house, catching and releasing them for my mother at great personal risk. — John L. Monk

It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa — Mother Teresa

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother. — Chely Wright

Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray. — Dominique Moceanu

But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference. — Mother Teresa

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance. — Bong Joon-ho

Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get rid of that prejudice. — Frederick The Great

I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother. — Laozi

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. — Mother Teresa

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother. — Charlie Huston

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. — Mother Teresa

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work. — Sarah Jessica Parker

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. — Mark Twain

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. — Rachel Carson

So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well. — George W. Bush

Do great in the small things. — Mother Teresa

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother. — Cheryl Tiegs

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos — Alice Randall

I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could
have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer — James Patterson

Want has been the great schoolmaster of the race: necessity has been the mother of all great inventions. — Orison Swett Marden

When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children, — Julie B. Beck

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook. — Coolio

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Roe Deer, when your spirit returns to the Great Earth Mother, thank Her for giving us one of your kind, that we may eat, Jondalar said quietly. — Jean M. Auel

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life. — Adam Sandler

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece. — Rose Kennedy

Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds. — Swami Vivekananda

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that. — Vera Wang

Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death. — Kathleen Kennedy