Quotes About Mothers

#1. You stay home and raise daughters, who grow up and get jobs and then feel pity for you, their stay-at-home mothers.

Noah Hawley

#2. All women are like mothers but they don't notice themselves.

Fahmid Hassan Prohor

#3. They had forgotten their own names, the voices of their mothers, the faces of their fathers.

Joe Hill

#4. Babies born to women who are infected with hep B - and mothers can carry the virus without their knowledge - will almost certainly be infected if they are not vaccinated within twelve hours of birth.

Eula Biss

#5. Belfastas uncivilised as ever
savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

E. M. Forster

#6. Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making sure prenatal care and proper nutrition are available for expectant mothers in need is a critical part of ending childhood hunger.

Hector Elizondo

#7. In the pairs of mothers and their adult children that I have seen, mothers who cared for their children out of obligation are then cared for in their elderly years by their adult children out of a similar obligation.

Jasmin Lee Cori

#8. I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

Shane Claiborne

#9. Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

Jodi Picoult

#10. It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.

Sophocles

#11. I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

Jo Brand

#12. My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.

Janine Di Giovanni

#13. Where's Mom? I can't wait to tell her all about this." "She's going to be late. An appointment, I think." "Again?" Jessica pouted. "That makes three nights in a row! I thought mothers were supposed to stay home and fix dinner once in a while!

Francine Pascal

#14. A lot of the actors I knew threw in the towel when they became mothers. I couldn't do that financially, and I didn't want to - but I was knackered all the time.

Lesley Manville

#15. Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

Geri Halliwell

#16. I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

Marcia Cross

#17. Their mothers were nobodies," Marian (Max's mom) said. "Donor eggs. Lab workers, techs, anyone we found. That was the point- that we could create a superrace out of anything. Out of trash."
Well, you're right there," I said. "Because we are a superrace. And I did come from trash.

James Patterson

#18. We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

Andy Partridge

#19. Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.

Elaine Heffner

#20. Children and mothers never truly part
Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Charlotte Gray

#21. Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.

Mario Puzo

#22. 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

#23. Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream
I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.

Phyllis Diller

#24. God could not be present everywhere so He made mothers. But there's more to it. He ensured that when we grow up, we don't forget that He exists, so He made children.

Shikha Kaul

#25. We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it's difficult.

Hill Harper

#26. Will we have bodyguards?"
"We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.

Joan Bauer

#27. A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

Gloria Steinem

#28. On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

Margaret Drabble

#29. O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

Thomas Hood

#30. Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful.

Cassandra Clare

#31. I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Drew Barrymore

#32. We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#33. Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

Naomi Watts

#34. I resign," says Velvel. He takes off his glasses, slips them into his pocket, and stands up. He forgot an appointment. He's late for work. His mother is calling him on the ultrasonic frequency reserved by the government for Jewish mothers in the event of lunch.

Michael Chabon

#35. Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.

Melissa Etheridge

#36. At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

Tim O'Brien

#37. In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Pope Francis

#38. Soldiers in the heat of battle; death-row prisoners; explorers stranded in deserts, jungles, on mountaintops; anyone sick or lost or just tired and bewildered: we all wanted our mothers.

Marisa De Los Santos

#39. To all fathers and mothers of the Church, tell your children that you love them and that you are so happy to have them in your family.

Patricia P. Pinegar

#40. But it is a noteworthy fact that eminent qualities in men may often be traced to similar qualities in their mothers.

Unknown

#41. I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.

Shirley Jackson

#42. We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

Philip K. Dick

#43. The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

Ellen Barkin

#44. If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.

Laurence Housman

#45. Maybe the idea of the supposed tension between working and nonworking mothers had been put out in the world just to cause divisiveness.

Meg Wolitzer

#46. I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#47. The world was more dangerous than it had been a few weeks ago. It was a world that slipped and slid beneath you, where children died because mothers forgot to check the latch. How did you keep your child safe in that kind of world?

Sharon Guskin

#48. The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

Swami Vivekananda

#49. The sons shaped their feet with the shoes of their fathers. To the plight of their mothers, the daughters surrendered their dreams." - "THE RIVER," LARRY D. THOMAS

James Hollis

#50. Parental behavioral factors - including fathers who are responsive and positive, mothers who favor "self-directed child behavior," and parents with emotional intimacy in their marriages - influence a child's development two to three times more than any form of child care.

Sheryl Sandberg

#51. The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection

Audur Ava Olafsdottir

#52. Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

Bernard Williams

#53. We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.

Tarryn Fisher

#54. Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

Benjamin Rush

#55. You did everything you could, but sometimes all the love in the world from mothers and brothers isn't enough to help pull someone out of their nightmare. We just need to accept that things are what they are, and all the guilt and regret in the world can't change that.

Colleen Hoover

#56. I'm very proud to be representing Latinas and women of color, young mothers and full-figured women. I just love that we're seeing different types of people on screen.

Dascha Polanco

#57. I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.

Melody Carlson

#58. It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through governesses and nannies, and later in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries through mothers, who told bedtime stories.

Jack D. Zipes

#59. My Mothers Gift of Courage To Me Were Both Large and Small.

Maya Angelou

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

Brene Brown

#61. Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

Anita Diamant

#62. Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

Calvin Trillin

#63. Mothers are the fountain of creation

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#64. Our morals came from our mothers ... we don't notice them when we were babies ... but they were eventually embedded ... bit by bit as we grew up ...

Joey Lawsin

#65. 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

#66. I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

Ellen Muth

#67. A brilliant idea is like a baby in a mothers womb.
You need to bring it out in the world, nurture it, feed it, grow it, till it becomes big enough to take care of itself.
If you leave it at the stage of an idea itself, it is as good as non existent.

Manoj Arora

#68. Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth

Imran Khan

#69. The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#70. Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

Judith Martin

#71. Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation.

Kiana Davenport

#72. Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty's mother had for herself, if all mothers had them, bottled up beneath their mother exteriors.

Karen Brown

#73. At our mothers' knees we learn the music that turns words into kisses or curses.

Julie Berry

#74. 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

#75. One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

Ayelet Waldman

#76. A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

Banksy

#77. Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.

Elmina Shepard Taylor

#78. UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.

Jane Curtin

#79. People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.

Caleb Carr

#80. When our mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters are considered both different and inferior in the eyes of the God we worship, this belief tends to permeate society and everyone suffers.

Jimmy Carter

#81. Mothers. Can't live with them, can't hit them over the head with a board.

Katherine Allred

#82. I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

Lily Allen

#83. God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

Anonymous

#84. I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

Warren Farrell

#85. Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

Rachel Hunter

#86. Every one of our sons leaves home at some point. They become men who can return to help us mothers in ways that no other human can. They can teach us how to live our lives better. If we hold on long enough, and love them always, they come back to us.

Meg Meeker Md

#87. I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

Melinda Gates

#88. Fathers, on the other hand, were there to toughen children up, to say Walk it off when mothers would hold them if they fell. Mothers were the carrot. Fathers were the stick.

Noah Hawley

#89. Smoking blood, over-filled cemeteries, mothers in tears, - these are formidable pleaders. When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear.

Victor Hugo

#90. Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#91. I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.

Tom Brokaw

#92. We hold the moon in our bellies and fire in our hearts. We bleed We give milk. We are the mothers of first words. These words grow. They are our children. They are our stores and poems.

Terry Tempest Williams

#93. Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

Honore De Balzac

#94. Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#95. I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.

Rick James

#96. The working mothers of America deserve medals.

Constance Marie

#97. I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#98. Blaming Black mothers, then, is a way of subjugating the Black race as a whole. At the same time, devaluing motherhood is particularly damaging to Black women.

Dorothy Roberts

#99. In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers' broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Aberjhani

#100. The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.

Bob Ney