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.

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.

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.

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.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

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

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

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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

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.

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

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

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

I miss my mother very, very much.

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

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

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.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.