Mothers Quotes

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

The only woman a wife should ever be jealous of is her husband's mom.

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

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

Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.