Mother Quotes

The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother's prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children.

Never paint your wife or your mother.

I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the mother in me.

If you are young child and you've lost mother and dad to AIDS and rich nations sit on the sidelines not caring, you will become a frustrated person and a hopeless person.

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.

We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.

I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable.

I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.

I have not met one living being that has not been the mother of all the rest.

I have a lot of very, very powerful women in my life. My mother being the first.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

Progress is the mother of problems.

Humility is the mother of giants.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother.

My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this.

I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.

I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.

My mother loved the Bible.

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.

My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.

If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.

I was really fixated when I was a child. Again my mother was just talking to me about this, about how I would how try to get details exactly right. I guess I was always very persistent.

I don't want to be ignorant in my daughter's eyes.

In the years before the war, whenever [Adolf] Hitler would be holed up in Bayreuth, Eva [Braun], myself and our mother often went to Italy for a week.

The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.