Mother Quotes

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

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

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.

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

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

I once was a little girl who saw her father strike her mother. My younger sister and I lived with the anguish that all children feel when the family unit breaks down.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

Fear is the mother of morality.

My mother taught me if you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all.

No other teacher would do what she did for a lot of people. She was like my second mother.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

I miss my mother very, very much.

My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.