Top 100 Good Mother Quotes
#1. I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.
Maya Angelou
#2. I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.
Sheena Easton
#3. I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good grandmother for my granddaughter because I was always so sick. I only hope that I can live long enough to see my granddaughter graduate.
Dorothy Moore
#5. There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form of selfishness.
Anna Quindlen
#7. As it was, being a bad mother was child's play compared to being a good mother, which was an incessant struggle, a lose-lose situation 24 hours a day; long after the kids were in bed the torment of what I did or didn't do during those hours we were trapped together would scourge my soul.
Mary Kubica
#8. I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.
Kelly Clarkson
#10. No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.
James Cook
#11. It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.
Honore De Balzac
#12. Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#13. It broke her heart, but a good mother teaches her children to fly. Some,
Francine Rivers
#14. Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.
Charlotte M. Mason
#15. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for the next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day.
J.M. Barrie
#16. When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.
Robyn Davidson
#18. Good mother knows her children, knows everything about them, the good and the bad. A great mother loves them regardless.
Melody Anne
#19. I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for my family.
Wendy Davis
#20. I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.
Caleb Carr
#22. Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.
Isobelle Carmody
#24. I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.
Maya Angelou
#25. I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won't be getting out of line anytime soon.
Alexa Vega
#26. I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.
Julie Christie
#27. It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.
Annette Bening
#28. I don't think most people realise the practical problems associated with prostitution; childcare is a major issue, believe me. I wanted to be a good mother. I wanted more than anything to be a good mother. Sweet
Nick Roddy
#29. Our stories are what we have," Our Good Mother says. "Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?
Julianna Baggott
#30. I lay there and I thought of what that teacher said, and of all the things I'd been: child, rebellious teenager, runaway, whore, lover, bad mother, bad wife. I'm not sure if I can remake myself as a good wife, but a good mother - that I have to try.
Paula Hawkins
#31. Tell me how you do it, Marmee dear." "My good mother used to help me..." "As you do us..." interrupted Jo, with a grateful kiss. "But I lost her when I was a little older than you are,
Louisa May Alcott
#32. I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend.
Suzy Favor Hamilton
#33. I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
Patricia Heaton
#34. I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list.
Michelle Obama
#35. My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.
Sanford I. Weill
#37. I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.
Joanne Woodward
#38. A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
William Watson Purkey
#40. My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.
Sunidhi Chauhan
#41. Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
Sheena Easton
#42. Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.
Marya Mannes
#43. And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.
Joyce Carol Oates
#45. I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.
Rosie O'Donnell
#46. If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.
Katherine Heigl
#47. I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.
Peaches Geldof
#49. Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.
Ann Oakley
#50. I am proud that I am a good mother to my children, a good daughter to my mother, a good sister to my sis (Ashley Judd) and a good wife to my new husband.
Wynonna Judd
#51. You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.
Ellen Barkin
#52. What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother
pure, transparent, incapable of deception.
Rhonda Riley
#53. Trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.
Lionel Shriver
#54. I think I was raised by a really good mother.
Dean Winters
#55. Then too, motherhood is broken because in this place, to be a good mother is to give yourself completely. It is to erase yourself. This is what I refused to do.
Nayomi Munaweera
#56. The best sentence a man can say to a woman is "I want to meet your parents" or "You will be a good mother one day".
Yuli Pritania
#57. We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
Francis Maude
#59. Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.
Adriana Trigiani
#60. A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.
Jane Fonda
#61. A good mother does not live only for her children. She always has some bond with other mothers, no matter what class, nationality or race they may be. All mothers have the same joys, the same sorrows, the same anxieties. All mothers think first of their child and of children.
Werenfried Von Straaten
#62. The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.
J. Ogden Armour
#63. The message is clear: a good mother breast feeds. Significantly, this good mother shares a sociocultural profile with women in other developed countries: she is over thirty, is a high earning professional, does not smoke, takes prenatal classes, and benefits from a long maternity leave.
Elisabeth Badinter
#64. I had thought a good mother would not elicit such comments, but now I see that a good mother is required to somehow absorb all this ugliness and find a way to fall back in love with her child the next day.
Kelly Corrigan
#65. If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.
Ayelet Waldman
#66. I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can't do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.
Ann Romney
#68. Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.
Jodi Picoult
#69. I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.
Mary-Louise Parker
#70. Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos
Alice Randall
#71. I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
Vivienne Westwood
#72. A better mother would shape that anger into loss and then, at least, into the kind of memory of love one can sustain, but Vianne was too empty to be a good mother right now. She could think of no words that weren't a lie or useless.
Kristin Hannah
#73. being a good mother does not mean being perfect every single moment. we screw up. we get mad, we drink too much, eat too much, yell too much. a good mother learns from her mistakes and does what she can to not let them happen over and over.
Amy Hatvany
#74. I have somewhere read of a wise bishop who in a visit to his diocese found an old woman whose only prayer consisted in the single interjection "Oh!-
"Good mother" said he to her, "continue to pray in this manner; your prayer is better than ours." This better prayer is mine also.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#75. The heart of a good mother is as big as the ocean; accommodating all kind of things and sweeping all unwanted things to its shores!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#77. The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
Rachel Cusk
#78. Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.
Goldie Hawn
#79. For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.
Janine Di Giovanni
#80. A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.
Erin Kelly
#81. You need to be able to nurture yourself in order to be a good mother, good at your job, good at servicing your community. I really believe women can do it all, but they can't do it all at the expense of their health, their sleep, and their sense of well-being.
Arianna Huffington
#82. I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.
Charles Spurgeon
#83. That old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.
Irene Hunt
#84. There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#85. When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
Dick Gregory
#86. Rest easy, real mothers. The fact that you worry about being a good mother means you already are one.
Jodi Picoult
#87. It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.
James Cook
#88. A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes ... And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.
Jodi Picoult
#89. When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break from being a mother or running a charitable organization and other philanthropic projects that I'm really passionate about.
Natalia Vodianova
#90. I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
Manu Bennett
#91. Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.
Andy Van Slyke
#92. My life isn't theories and formulae. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone ... from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.
Audrey Hepburn
#93. I am staring into the hissing face of a cobra. A surprisingly pink tongue slithers in and out of a cruel mouth while an Indian man whose eyes are the blue of blindless inclines his head towards my mother and explains in Hindi that cobras make very good eating.
Libba Bray
#94. I'll keep my head down," Mally assured him. "I'll be careful."
"If anything happens
"
"If anything happens I'll tell you immediately."
Ivan seemed pleased at that and relaxed against a tree trunk.
"Good. I don't want your mother chasing me around Lenzar with a carving knife.
M.L. LeGette
#95. Mia: I was sixteen when I first realized my mom was more concerned about my appearance than I was ... I'll be talking to my mom and realize she hasn't heard a word because she's studying my face to see if the foundation I'm using is a good match for my skin tone.
Mia Fontaine
#96. The father's role, he says, is to provide the mother with the peace and security she needs to be a good enough mother.
Massimilla Harris
#97. Be kind to her when she comes back. Her love is not only for children but for humanity. She will be a good-hearted and magnificent zealot one day. As her mother is now.
Goodbye, Kate. And below he had signed as he rarely did, with his Christian name.
Dorothy Dunnett
#98. I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.
Rachael Taylor
#99. My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid.
George Carlin
#100. When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts ... But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
