Mothers Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Mothers

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The labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go. — Susan Piver

Don't even try making out I'm making this up. I've got proof. Evidence. — Diane Samuels

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men
from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church ... — John Calvin

Dwarf mothers didn't handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature. — Erik Bundy

Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel. — J. B. Smoove

All mothers worry, but Black mothers, we have to worry a little bit more. — Jodi Picoult

Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful. — Elmina Shepard Taylor

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day
from the minute they left your body until they left your home. — Lisa Unger

Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets. — Alice Cooper

Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest. — Sandy Duncan

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. — Gail Tsukiyama

I'm not sure who has the greater fear, mothers or daughters, that daughters will, in fact, become their mothers. — Brooklyn James

Mothers can be so dense. Just act like you approve of what we're doing. We'll soon do the exact opposite, just to spite you. — Cat Clarke

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! — Thomas Hood

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? — George Carlin

How different her mother's world was from hers. How different our mothers' worlds are from all of ours. — Eleanor Brown

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road. — Jimmy Carl Black

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place. — Christina Aguilera

Welfare mothers make better lovers. — Neil Young

Mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. — Victor Hugo

The working mothers of America deserve medals. — Constance Marie

Mothers and women in love: both ferocious females. — Irene Nemirovsky

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

Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment. — Vivian Vande Velde

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. — Daniel Woodrell

Maybe "warehouses" equals "mothers", a wide margin of error is permissible when you're dealing with super-impositions. — Roberto Bolano

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please. — Padma Lakshmi

Everyday I've got is my Mother's Day! — Mohith Agadi

The Little War?
How can there be
a little war?
Are some deaths
smaller than others,
leaving mothers
who weep
a little less? — Margarita Engle

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart. — Ezra Taft Benson

Youth isn't all it's cracked up to be either."
"Then you're doing it wrong. — Rachel Hauck

No one ever outgrows the need for a mother's love. — Janette Oke

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. — Abraham Lincoln

Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you. — June Ahern

(Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers' shoulders until they leave a snot trail.) — Jordan Sonnenblick

Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom. — Linda Becker

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. — Miguel De Cervantes

In your time, politicians win points in the polls for proposing to punish unmarried teenaged mothers like me, not to mention our children. — Elizabeth Cunningham

They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them — Robin Williams

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers. — Sonia Braga

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing. — Toni Morrison

Motherhood is when eating chicken soup; the kids get the chicken and you get the soup and you would still feel happily stuffed. — Sandra Chami Kassis

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen. — Carrie Fisher

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues
when they have girls to manage — Louisa May Alcott

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers. — Barbara Kingsolver

One of the best things about good mothers is that they remind their children to take care of themselves. — Kristin Armstrong

Mothers shouldn't be allowed to get old and fragile. — J.A. Konrath

Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm ... — George R R Martin

Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice. — Rita Mae Brown

That love we have for mothers has to be cut with vinegar, and maybe even acid. Otherwise, it will overwhelm us. She will overwhelm us. — Stephanie Powell Watts

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. — C.S. Forester

Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence. — Madame De La Fayette

I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves. — Stephen King

And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers. — Allen Toussaint

Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes. — Kate Winslet

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive. — Marina Warner

Amma Sarah knew that her spiritual power was infinite if she could truly forget herself and allow Christ to work through her. — Kate Cooper

On famous relatives - First I was my mother's daughter..and now..I am my daughter's mother ! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane. — J.D. Salinger

Time marches on while mothers weep, each one wondering why the world hasn't stopped to mourn. — Colin Gigl

Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints. — Emily Yoffe

People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance. — Peter V. Brett

Clarity and focus doesn't always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you. — Shannon L. Alder

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. — Alice Walker

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. — Henry David Thoreau

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! — Andrei Platonov

Children and mothers never truly part
Bound in the beating of each other's hearts. — Charlotte Gray

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do? — Barry Deutsch

Motherhood unwittingly molds us into all we are now, or are - destined to be. — Eleesha

... she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. — Louisa May Alcott

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication. — Richard Louv

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves. — Banksy

We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace. — Nelly Sachs

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sweetheart the doctor gave you the okay, and your friends will be there. It's okay to live your life. You can't be afraid at every turn. — Evelyn Smith

We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers. — Sheryl Sandberg

People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you. — Amit Kalantri

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against. — Brendan Behan

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner. — Jane Pauley

Banks burn, boys die bullet-eyed, mothers scream realization the vast tonnage of napalm — Allen Ginsberg

Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know? — Brit Bennett

The day we serve humanity, as we serve our mothers, we shall find Allah. — Zarina Bibi

You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair ... — Sue Monk Kidd

Mothers. We get none of the breaks. But we also get most of the blessings. You — Joyce Magnin

Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in. — David Mitchell

When the last female dies, the gateway to the earth closes to man. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters. — Sarah Addison Allen

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back. — Shannon Celebi

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores. — Bob Dylan

My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that. — Ashley Judd

When a new baby is expected mother has 9 months to prepare the family and the kitchen for her departure! — Nursing Mothers' Association Of Australia

A Mother & Daughter's Love Is Never Separated — Viola Shipman

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you. — L.M. Montgomery

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes. — Kaye Gibbons

Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner. — Patricia Polacco

Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood ... she just jokes. — Saina Nehwal

In one way or another,
you owe your life to Mother. — Richelle E. Goodrich