Quotes about Mothers

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."
-Washington Irving

"One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, "Mama I want to be a painter.""
-Marc Chagall

"Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond."
-Adam Brody

"Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told."
-Chastity Bono

"The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best."
-Hamilton Wright Mabie

"A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium."
-Mary Kay Blakely

"Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see."
-Pope Paul Vi

"Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children."
-Maxim Gorky

"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?"
-Trey Parker and Matt Stone

"And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me."
-Gloria Vanderbilt

"Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully."
-Fay Weldon

"There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect."
-Roseanne Barr

"My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to sister."
-Pat Conroy

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
-Aristotle

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
-George Eliot

"My father's Jewish. My mother's Jewish. I'm Jewish."
-Daniel Pearl

"Even now, where you have single fathers raising their children too, not just single mothers."
-Sandra Dials

"You and I are mothers. You are our leader. You know a mother's love. Please help and intervene."
-Julian Mcmahon

"Help these frightened baby elephants feel the comfort and love of their mothers once again."
-Spice Girls

"We're opening up the day after Mother's Day."
-Tom Driscoll

"One of the boys' mothers helped with the [claymation] class, and that got him more interested in the language, ... He'd never been interested in speaking the language before."
-Sandy Wilson

"My business grew out of the lifestyle change of society. Life is busy - life has gotten off-the-chart busy. Our mothers had a different kind of life because life just moved at a different pace. Families just don?t live like they use to."
-Carolee Cannata

"It's tricky because you have to treat the mother and the baby. The mothers are in turmoil, so we try to reassure them that they will do well and get them to concentrate on delivering the baby."
-George Peters

"I thought this was the way the game should be played. I don't know if we've got too many mothers running hockey or what."
-Walt Kyle

"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all."
-Benjamin Spock

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

"We're not saying that employers discriminate against mothers because they don't like them."
-Shelley J. Correll