Top 100 Mother Wisdom Quotes
#1. they "come to the business of life & the application of knowledge they find that they are inferior - & all their studies have not given them that practical good sense & mother wisdom & wit which grew up with our grandmothers at the spinning wheel,
Megan Marshall
#2. In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
Ezra Taft Benson
#3. Mother is the center of the family; everyone else surrounds her.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.
Delores Phillips
#6. Greatness is in simplicity and in kindness, like Mother Theresa.
Debasish Mridha
#7. If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice.
John Steinbeck
#8. Today's thoughts and imaginations are tomorrow's reality. They will foster actions as the mother of all creativity.
Debasish Mridha
#9. There is much to be learned from the world around us - far more than we normally comprehend. The Ancient Ones knew this well - most particularly the wise teachers among them - those who, in the Navajo tongue, were called "Anasazi.
Anasazi Foundation
#10. Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature.
Morihei Ueshiba
#12. The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward - toward my people - instead of backward, away from them.
Anasazi Foundation
#13. ? Life is all about relationships and what actually happens when people relate, when people understand each other. To see each other for who they are, not what we want or expect of them. Margaret Bouchard
Ted Magnuson
#14. Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Erma Bombeck
#15. My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.
Rick Riordan
#16. The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#17. Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
#18. Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.
Chanakya
#19. There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.
Anasazi Foundation
#20. Listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations. When
Maya Angelou
#21. Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.
Anasazi Foundation
#22. Miriva refused to believe that human decency should be a privilege given only to a small few, and when she complained to her mother that she did not want to be a broodmare for the sake of alliances between the villages, her mother slapped her and sent her to the fields to pick mehazi beans
Ash Gray
#23. I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right, and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. I can't help wishing, sometimes, that father and mother hadn't been so dreadfully particular about such things. -- Jo
Louisa May Alcott
#25. On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: When she was very small I used to say to her, 'tell me Malala, how is the school going?' And she'd say 'it is so-so, you should change this and this ... ' I trusted her wisdom.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#26. A great woman has three identities: a lovely daughter, a passionate lover, and a kind mother.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price, Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.
Dee Marie
#28. Your kundalini rises. She is your mother. She is your individual mother and she gives you the second birth. That's how you get connected to the Divine Paradise.
Nirmala Srivastava
#29. Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people.
Anasazi Foundation
#30. My mother had a kindness
that embraced all life.
She knew her place well
and was comfortable in giving everything she had.
This is the tradition of native women.
Dan George
#31. No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.
Kristin Hannah
#32. God Father (the Creator) geometrizes, God Mother (Nature) fractalizes.
Stefan Emunds
#34. Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.
James F. Cooper
#35. What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.
Andrew Harvey
#36. I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
Wendell Berry
#37. It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.
Nirmala Srivastava
#38. The wisdom to recognize and halt follows the know-how to pollute past rescue. The treaty's signed, but the cancer ticks in your bones. Until I'd murdered my father and fornicated my mother I wasn't wise enough to see I was Oedipus.
John Barth
#39. Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.
C.S. Lewis
#40. Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
Anne Lamott
#41. A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!
Munia Khan
#42. If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff?
Rick Riordan
#43. Harmony is about bringing things into balance and knowing how to go from sunrise to sunset. Mother Nature teaches this to us, in so many ways, each and every day.
Jaeda DeWalt
#44. A woman is a mother, daughter, and sister of every man; how she could be wrong?
Debasish Mridha
#45. The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have.
Henry David Thoreau
#46. We need to cherish Father Sky and honor Mother Earth.Every THING has a purpose. Every ONE has worth. (Short story entitled THE PUZZLE, found in a book, Foxleaf Anthology, collection of works from authors in the Upper Cumberland, TN)
KoKo Nervelli
#47. This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
Richard V. Allen
#48. I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.
Anasazi Foundation
#49. My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
Katherine Heigl
#50. It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.
Al-Ghazali
#51. When people hear my daughter and when they know about her wisdom and maturity, they think that her father must have been sitting with her and mentoring her. They think he would have spent a lot of time in bringing her up. They think he would have constructed her.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#52. They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
Patricia Richardson
#53. Let's learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.
Hillary Clinton
#54. There is nothing to lose in this life. Naked I came from mother's womb and naked will I go into the grave.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#55. Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely.
Anasazi Foundation
#56. God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning ... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman.
David B. Lentz
#57. When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#58. At the end of our lives, when our bodies are about to be laid in Mother Earth, we will know for ourselves whether we are a Two-Legged being full of light or a Two-Legged being full of darkness.
Anasazi Foundation
#59. Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward.
Anasazi Foundation
#60. In fact, "father" and "mother" are two aspects of the same reality. Father is more expressive side of wisdom or understanding, and mother the side of love or compassion...Without understanding there cannot be true love, and without love there cannot be understanding,
Thich Nhat Hanh
#61. I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
Alice Walker
#63. I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.
Margaret Cho
#64. A foolish man enjoys the company of prostitutes;
a wise man enjoys the company of his wife.
The mother of a prudent son will rejoice;
the father of a mindless son will groan.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#65. Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.
T.H. White
#66. World will be so beautiful without war.
Every child will grow up without fear.
Mother will smile; child will play.
Friendship will prosper all the way.
Love harmony and peace everywhere.
It is our hope for our great future.
Debasish Mridha
#67. A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination.
Debasish Mridha
#68. As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.
Chanakya
#69. My mother had a mantra: musical instrument, foreign language, martial art.
E.L. James
#70. On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay.
Aspen Matis
#72. If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again
Munia Khan
#74. A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#75. Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother's pronouncements. She had long since convinced them of the absolute inferiority of men, whose sole function was to marry and to pay.
Emile Zola
#76. Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.
Rob Sheffield
#77. To one full of love:
a stranger is his brother,
a stranger is his sister,
a stranger is his mother,
a stranger is his father.
To one full of self:
a stranger is a nuisance,
a stranger is an intruder,
a stranger is an adversary,
a stranger is a stranger.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#78. What is it, Father?" Picket asked as Mother tenderly took Jacks from him. "It's only that, when you're older, you hand out wisdom to your children like you know everything, but it is sometimes hard to follow your own advice.
S.D. Smith
#79. A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol
Jeremy Taylor
#80. Kundalini is your Mother. She has been with you for ages and She has been waiting for this day when you could get your Realization.
Nirmala Srivastava
#81. The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection
Alexandre Dumas
#82. Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.
Anasazi Foundation
#83. If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.
Nirmala Srivastava
#84. Curtis' mother always said that the better you know others, the better you will know yourself, and that in the fullest sharing of experience, we learn the wisdom of the world.
Dean Koontz
#85. No mother ever wants a war, they want to see their children grow up in peace, surrounded by love.
Debasish Mridha
#86. My favourite thing is when my mother goes in the other to go and to talk to the phone, I use that moment for wisdom.
Deyth Banger
#87. All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart
Mother Teresa
#88. Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.
Mother Teresa
#89. There is a girl.
I named her love.
She has a father.
His name is desire.
Her mother has a name,
but not always the same.
We call her destiny.
Love calls her mommy.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!
Erma Bombeck
#91. We can do more for the peace just by changing our thoughts. Be an example of compassion and kindness like Mother Teresa. We all can do that without harming anyone.
Debasish Mridha
#93. The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother's prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children.
George W. Bush
#95. Not everything's funny, Mother."
"No," said Leola, "so I guess when you can laugh,, it's all the sweeter.
Lorna Landvik
#96. The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Anonymous
#97. He often said that knowledge is the brightest jewel in a queen's crown. And if my mother was about, she would never fail to add, 'when tempered by wisdom. Knowledge without comprehension is worse than ignorance.
Mereda Hart Farynyk
#98. A boy, Ranga, is the light in his father's eye and the love in his mother's heart.
Ian B.G. Burns
#99. There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival.
Abhijit Naskar
#100. Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her.
Debasish Mridha
