Quotes about Mothers

“Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.”

“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same -- and most mothers kiss and scold together.”

“Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.”

“But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.”

“The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.”

“Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles — and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech — look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.”

“A busy mother makes slothful daughters.”

“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”

“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”

“Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.”

“A mother understands what a child does not say.”

“God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers”

“Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.”

“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.”

“There was never a great man who had not a great mother.”

“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers.”

“He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.”

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”

“The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.”

“What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?”

“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.”

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”

“A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.”

“The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.”

“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.”

“A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.”

“The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.”

“Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.”