Quotes About Great Mothers

#1. They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#3. Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.

Charlize Theron

#4. Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

Carrie Fisher

#5. When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#6. Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.

Cara Buono

#7. No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.

Richard Sibbes

#8. Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at great financial and personal sacrifice ... They reflect honor to mothers who sacrificed to remain home for their children's benefit.

Richard G. Scott

#9. ... these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity

Elizabeth Cunningham

#10. The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers
a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.

Shirley Chisholm

#11. So while it is great to celebrate on a day dedicated to moms, I urge each of you, to ALWAYS be good to the woman who is so good to you. Honor your mothers EVERY DAY by letting her know she is the real MVP in your life.

Carlos Wallace

#12. 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

#13. Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Cissy Houston

#14. My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

Magic Johnson

#15. All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.

Cathy Guisewite

#16. She is the creature of life, the giver of life, and the giver of abundant love, care and protection. Such are the great qualities of a mother. The bond between a mother and her child is the only real and purest bond in the world, the only true love we can ever find in our lifetime.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#17. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity on both counts.

Shirley Chisholm

#18. She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

Liza Minnelli

#19. Many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#20. Shaming other mothers is not one of the million ways to be a great mom.

Brene Brown

#21. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#22. To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.

Pope Francis

#23. Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get rid of that prejudice.

Frederick The Great

#24. America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.

Mother Teresa

#25. I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.

Shaun White

#26. Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

Kerry Washington

#27. People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has removed himself to a great distance and encased himself in silence?

Jan Ellison

#28. 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

#29. There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#30. He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men
it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.

Boris Pasternak

#31. When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children,

Julie B. Beck

#32. It is the obscene horror, the dry, fucked-out aspect of things which makes this crazy civilization look like a crater. It is this great yawning gulf of nothingness which the creative spirits and mothers of the race carry between their legs.

Henry Miller

#33. All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

Boris Pasternak

#34. I am a champion. My mom made sure that I did yoga every day. She dragged me because that was something she was doing for herself. She would have a great time with her friends. All the mothers would sit together and the kids all did yoga.

Rajashree Choudhury

#35. She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.

Thomas Hardy

#36. The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

Victor Hugo

#37. If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear.

J.M. Barrie

#38. When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.

William Makepeace Thackeray