Top 100 Mothers Are Quotes
#1. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.
Victor Hugo
#2. Dead mothers are rather fashionable these days. They lend such an attractive air of tragedy.
Heidi Schulz
#3. Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can't do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child.
Caroline Kennedy
#4. Mothers are generally starvers or feeders
Fiona Wood
#5. In my experience the most forceful and aggressive mothers are always the least inspired, the most unmusical of souls, all of them profoundly unsuccessful women who wear their daughter's image on their breast like a medal, like a bright deflection from their own unshining selves.
Eleanor Catton
#6. Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation.
Kiana Davenport
#7. Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together
Pearl S. Buck
#9. Mothers are like dungeons. Some really stink and you'll do anything to avoid them. And some are lush sanctuaries filled with gold, jewels, and butterscotch schnapps-spiked Nestle Nesquik.
Shelly Mazzanoble
#10. Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.
Mario Puzo
#11. ...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity realignment.
Anne Fadiman
#12. We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
F.H. Bradley
#13. reached behind me to adjust the stockings again. "Your mother doesn't like me." "She just doesn't want to lose me. That's how mothers are.
Paula McLain
#14. Maternal/child attachment is mostly eroded in increments. The separation begins in hospitals, where mothers are not only made to feel inferior to medical professionals in relation
to their infants, but regularly separated from their infants.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
#15. I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying ... mothers are like that, aren't they?
Yuvraj Singh
#16. I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
Angelina Grimke
#17. 'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone.
Tess Gerritsen
#18. Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.
Sandy Duncan
#19. Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Maggie Gallagher
#20. In the land of Cheerios, dirty diapers, fleeting naps and interrupted sleep, other mothers are a lifeline.
Susan Chira
#21. Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
Fanny Fern
#22. Mothers are the first professors in the school of character.
Hugh B. Brown
#23. Mothers are the ultimate executives. Instead of raising profits they are raising humanity.
Virginia Burges
#24. This was why mothers were so obsessively, consumingly, drivenly, and yet somehow narcissistically loving of you, their kid: the mothers are trying frantically to make amends for a murder neither of you quite remember.
David Foster Wallace
#26. Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.
Leymah Gbowee
#27. But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.
J.D. Salinger
#29. Probably hundreds of thousands of saved pregnant mothers are going to be going up in the Rapture, and you know good and well they are going to have their babies either in Heaven or when they get back to Earth in the Millennium!
David Berg
#30. One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
Fatema Mernissi
#31. Saying that you religion is better than other religions is similar to saying that your mother is great but other mothers are characterless.
Ismat Ahmed Shaikh
#32. Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.
Kofi Annan
#33. I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that.
Tracey Emin
#34. Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
David Gottesman
#35. It's necessary to readjust and then try again. And then readjust and try again. Fathers have to do that with sons and mothers have to do that with daughters. The level of readjustment isn't quite so much when fathers are dealing with daughters and mothers are dealing with sons.
James Spader
#36. The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
Adrienne Rich
#37. So many mothers are unable to let their children go into the adult life and become literally attached to them giving rise to codependency
Sunday Adelaja
#38. All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#39. We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#40. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they're more certain they are their own.
Greg Iles
#42. I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.
Neal Shusterman
#44. Mothers are irreplaceable treasure, you can always have a step-mother but never in life can you ever have another mother".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#46. But our mothers are our first contact with the world of the feminine and the world of our emotions, which are closely related.
Massimilla Harris
#47. Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.
Helena Bonham Carter
#48. Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.
R. Heber Newton
#49. Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.
Sharon Jaynes
#50. Your mother is a better man than me. Mothers are almost always better men than men are.
Sherman Alexie
#51. Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.
Hope Edelman
#52. I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.
Donna Air
#53. I think all mothers are a nightmare - i don't think you can have children and not lose your goddamn mind.
Jennifer Lawrence
#54. She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them.
Fredrik Backman
#55. All mothers are rivers and all rivers, mothers.
Aporva Kala
#57. Mothers are supposed to be their children's biggest cheerleaders. Mothers are supposed to believe in their children, no matter what. Mothers will lie to themselves, if necessary, to do this.
Jodi Picoult
#58. Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#59. Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#60. I've always believed phone calls from kids must be allowed if mothers are to feel welcome in the workplace, as anyone who has worked in my chambers can attest.
Sonia Sotomayor
#61. I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
Arianna Huffington
#62. Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
Sarah Addison Allen
#63. The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things with magical powers.
Richard Corliss
#64. Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
Carrie Fisher
#65. grandmas are allowed to spoil and indulge when mothers are not.
Bobbi Reed
#66. Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.
Andy Van Slyke
#67. Babies are designed to cry when they need something and mothers are designed to respond.
Pamela Druckerman
#68. Boys come and go, but mothers are forever.
Nicola Yoon
#69. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Mary Antin
#70. Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention
Margaret Mead
#72. After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle
[expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.
Janis Joplin
#73. As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.
Steven Morrissey
#74. Boys are slobs ... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.
Laura Schlessinger
#75. Mothers are the diamonds that God gave us when we were born
Michelle Geaney
#76. On the whole, there is nobody like one's own mother ... I wonder if, after all, mothers are not the best friends there are!
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
#77. A mother is willing and capable of doing anything for her children. You can justify it if you do something for your children, especially as a Mexican mother. I don't know about some other nationalities, but the Mexican mothers are like that. They will do anything for their children.
Salma Hayek
#78. Fathers are like your BackBone,They will stand by you 4ever N ever. While Mothers are your Heart ... They live with your Happiness N die with Your Sorrow..
Shweta Sonali
#79. Fathers and mothers are just people, which means they make mistakes. Don't hold that against them. Whatever flaws they may have, they created you in a moment of love, and are among the few who knew you when. When they're gone, there won't be anyone to take their place.
Ernest Borgnine
#80. I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.
Bong Joon-ho
#81. Mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
Victor Hugo
#82. I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father, she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?
Jodi Picoult
#83. Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.
Vivian Vande Velde
#84. Mothers are the heart and soul of every life they touch. In them lies the beauty, depth and grandeur of life. Cherish the Children is an inspirational expression of the importance of a Mother's work.
Jane Clayson Johnson
#86. Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.
Jane Fonda
#89. Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families.
Patricia Arquette
#90. I think sometimes the best mothers are simply those who make the decision to love their children every day, regardless of what happens.
Karen White
#91. People that I have known that have been extremely creative, people in the business, they have always been influenced by their mothers. Their mothers are the ones that created whatever it is - the urge to create.
Georgia Holt
#92. Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
Yoko Ono
#93. All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
Boris Pasternak
#94. Don't men in the South have gray hair? she asked.
Yes, but their mothers are blonde.
Maryln Schwartz
#95. I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#96. In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.
Randy Susan Meyers
#97. If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place.
Koren Zailckas
#98. Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.
Anne Lamott
#99. Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")
A.E. Coppard
#100. Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the enviroment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
